undefinable

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Recent Examples of undefinable Advertisement Food The undefinable cooking at Poltergeist will haunt you Oct. 12, 2023 Button Mash was home to a number of pop-ups throughout the years, including the long-running Starry Kitchen, a 101 List awardee under former L.A. Times Food critic Jonathan Gold. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024 Miryang is neither a respite for Shin-ae nor an escape, but rather some undefinable cross between the two. Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024 The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art. Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
Adjective
  • Unlike other startups that are chasing the still relatively undefined goal of achieving AGI (an AI system that rivals human intelligence), Cohere is focused on how AI can best be used to increase productivity, Cohere cofounder Nick Frosst told me last week.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Many have compared Gladys to a classic fairy tale antagonist, a villain whose undefined age and unambiguously evil motivations thrust a town into chaos.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s an indeterminate number of PCs — somewhere between 240 and 400 million — that are not eligible to upgrade.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • After an indeterminate amount of time, the man leaned closer to me.
    Meg Pillow July 31, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • And somehow that memory — faint and indistinct — might surpass anything Tim Burton might have been able to craft.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 14 July 2025
  • But even that latter monster showed only a shimmering red blob of a planet with shifting, indistinct imagery.
    Rod Pyle, Space.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • His analysis illustrated the highly uncertain nature of where tariff policy is leading.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Quantum technology is still years from achieving broad commercial viability, making future revenue streams uncertain.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The lawsuit is asking for an undetermined amount in damages.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Most people who get fillers done right are completely indistinguishable from those who haven’t had anything done.
    Carlos Wolf, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
  • He was either shrouded in haze (the gasps of the fog machine eventually became indistinguishable from the vapor being collectively exhaled by the crowd) or obscured by low-angle backlighting.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Padres’ first game post-deadline got off to a slow start, but an inexplicable decision and an error by Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras helped lead to a four-run fifth inning and got the Padres on their way to a 4-1 victory.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
  • To make matters more inexplicable, the council promoted the assistant city manager to the top post, paying her a base salary of $363,000.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 30 July 2025

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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