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Recent Examples of unshaped There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear. Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023 Years ago, these yew shrubs were dishevelled & unshaped, so The Prince tasked his gardeners with creating their own intriguing topiary designs. Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshaped
Adjective
  • This amorphous network of political content feels like a 2020s TikTokified incarnation of what Joshua Citarella mapped out in his book Politigram and the Post-left, tracking ideological microcultures that are more like kids trying on masks.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For much of the last decade, the Mets’ amorphous but always restricted budget drew the justified ire of their fan base.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Austen’s image expresses energy at odds with its unformed context.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The serious implication of it in the context of a Western, regarding the frontier as a place where state power is unformed, loose, and dubious, remains anecdotal and undeveloped.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Kids who regularly engage in unstructured play, Gray has written, build confidence and a sense of mastery by having to make decisions and navigate conflict among themselves, without the intervention or judgment of grownups.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because these trips are all about unstructured joy—and spontaneous fun.
    Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • San Diego’s chaotic shift in city trash service has begun to stabilize, with more customers signing up for new bins and more of the roughly 19,000 property owners who lost city service managing to strike deals with private haulers.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her other grands live full, busy and chaotic lives.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The original cut ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor, Ralph Rosenblum, was a shapeless mass of bits, loosely linked by the hero’s relationship with Annie.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Pear—Emphasize the waist and upper body; skip shapeless dresses or long jackets.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But Safdie’s script is at times formless and somewhat baggy.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Just ask Happy Gilmore 2, a formless, two-hour blob of Adam Sandler’s family and celebrity friends, with no real creative drive to speak of.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Unshaped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshaped. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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