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Recent Examples of unspecific
But, in recent years, several of the conservative Justices, in dissents, have seemed ready to start striking down some delegations as being too unspecific to be consistent with the separation of powers.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2025
Just as ChatGPT can generate entire screenplays in response to short, unspecific prompts, or follow long, detailed instructions, so too can the new Sora invent a complex scene on the basis of either.
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Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
9 Oct. 2025
War has affected my family in many specific and unspecific ways.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
The Angel Group and Spacestation Investments both led the more recent seed round that just closed at an unspecific 7-figure amount.
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Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2025
Just as ChatGPT can generate entire screenplays in response to short, unspecific prompts, or follow long, detailed instructions, so too can the new Sora invent a complex scene on the basis of either.
—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
9 Oct. 2025
War has affected my family in many specific and unspecific ways.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
The Angel Group and Spacestation Investments both led the more recent seed round that just closed at an unspecific 7-figure amount.
—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
Adjective
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Critics say Burnham’s politics are vague and fail to grapple with tough issues, such as where the money will come from to pay for his pledges.
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The truth is that the entire premise of the Cybercab rests on the promise of true autonomous operation, and that's the part that remains frustratingly vague.
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As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.
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At a billion scans a month, even modest rates imply hundreds of millions of ambiguous results a year, each one demanding a clinical decision and producing a worried customer.
Adjective
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Arcadia police said that the intersection of Duarte Road and Sunset Boulevard would be closed for an indefinite amount of time as the investigation got underway.
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As of now, Sony is not doing that, and the coming layoffs would make that essentially impossible for the indefinite future.
Adjective
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Douglas argued that the U.S. Constitution allows for several inexplicit rights, all of which flow from other protections explicitly stated in the document.
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Its particular target at that particular church on that particular morning remains the gesture’s one inexplicit feature.
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Our position today is equivocal.
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Nearly a quarter of Section murals include Indigenous figures, ranging in tone from romantic to racist, evidence of their prominent but equivocal place in the historical imaginary.
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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