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Recent Examples of unspecific
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.
—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
The document is unspecific as to how often or how far jail personnel would have to transport ICE’s prisoners.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
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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
The document is unspecific as to how often or how far jail personnel would have to transport ICE’s prisoners.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
Adjective
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But the notice sent last spring was so vague and confusing that few people used it to object.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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At the time, viewers had vague familiarity with these six faces, like Courteney Cox from Family Ties or Lisa Kudrow from Mad About You.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Times when a gay man from Texas needn’t rely on ambiguous pronouns and discreet interviews to court a broad audience.—
Brian Howe,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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And as a result, the show — accompanied by some quite instructive poster art — stays true to the book’s lusty approach to ethically ambiguous relationships in academia.—
Elaina Patton,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some people are being held for indefinite amounts of time in immigration detention.—
Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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The expansion has since been put on an indefinite hold over dispute between the project’s developers.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Mar. 2026
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.—
Alexandra M. Lord,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2022
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Its particular target at that particular church on that particular morning remains the gesture’s one inexplicit feature.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Apr. 2021
Adjective
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In the past, following a police massacre, authorities would appear before television cameras to offer equivocal statements about the events and promise investigations into the excessive use of force.—
Evandro Cruz Silva,
The Dial,
10 Feb. 2026
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However, for higher dose, systemic estrogen therapy — which is absorbed into the blood stream — including estrogen pills, Christmas and other menopause experts are more equivocal about removing the black box warning.—
Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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