How to Use undetermined in a Sentence

undetermined

adjective
  • The city’s share of the cost is 67 percent, but the total cost of the project is undetermined.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The plan is to have the house of worship razed, but by who and when is undetermined.
    Matt Stone, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The cause of the fire will be ruled undetermined due to the severe amount of damage to the structure.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The Cubs are in the early stages of a rebuild of undetermined length.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • The cause of death is still undetermined at this point.
    Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2022
  • The death was ruled a homicide, but the cause of death was left undetermined.
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The number of stores that Chick-fil-A plans to open is still undetermined.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Roads in the area will be closed for an undetermined amount of time, police said.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The men fled the store with an undetermined amount of money, police said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Michael Norman said that the fire was sparked from an undetermined heat source.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Police said the thief was armed with a black handgun and made off with an undetermined amount of money.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The venue on Sunday confirmed that the show would be rescheduled to an undetermined date and that Aldean is doing well.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • At the time of the bank's closing, the FDIC said the amount of deposits in excess of insurance limits was undetermined.
    Candice Choi, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • More than 100 moai were damaged by the flames, many of them blackened by soot, though the impact on the stone remains undetermined.
    Maria Teresa Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • But the manner of the teen’s death was classified as undetermined.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 May 2022
  • On the way, one of the ponies, probably the lead one, turned around for some undetermined reason, followed by others.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2022
  • Still, the impact to borrowing costs in coming months will depend chiefly on the – as yet undetermined – pace of the Fed’s rate hikes.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 16 June 2022
  • Still, the impact to borrowing costs in coming months will depend chiefly on the -- as yet undetermined -- pace of the Fed's rate hikes.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • The exact cause of the fire is undetermined, fire officials said.
    Michelle Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The cause of death was undetermined, and without any additional leads the case went cold.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • His identity was unknown and the manner and cause of his death was undetermined.
    CBS News, 13 July 2022
  • Authorities said the cause of the blaze was undetermined.
    Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The cause of the fire is undetermined, Charpentier said.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Police did not release the man’s name and said his cause of death was still undetermined early Sunday.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The key to quantum computing is that the qubits’ states are left undetermined until the final result is read out.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Thomas is helping investigate the cause of the fire, which is still undetermined.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Per their report, the coroner's office said that the cause and manner of Seidler's death are undetermined.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Pixar is set to layoff an undetermined number of staffers in the back half of 2024, Variety has confirmed.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In a letter to the Aurora police chief on November 22, Young referred to the undetermined cause of death as one of the factors.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The initial autopsy report had said the cause of death was undetermined.
    Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023

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