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Recent Examples of unspecific
The book begins by the deathbed of an elderly sister whose two remaining sisters have a falling out over cake—the kind of domestic spat that becomes mythic and completely unspecific, the details lost in a lingering fog of resentment.
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Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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
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Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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.
—
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
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There’s no reason to think, for example, that decisions made by political appointees based on vague standards would be any more transparent than those made by peer reviewers based on scientific merit.
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American Mission’s partnership with the company, as well as the ads’ vague message about Donalds, exemplify the opaque nature of the AI industry’s spending in the 2026 election cycle.
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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Without a unified, clean, and accessible data structure, AI outputs quickly become ambiguous, hallucinated, and diluted, deepening the clarity crisis rather than resolving it.
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There is disagreement between the supervisors over whether the resolution was indefinite or just for this last month.
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The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation that Congress has enacted to allow the government to pay out settlements without needing separate congressional approval for each one.
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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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But when McGill sent me her summary of the study later, the results were equivocal.
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Our position today is equivocal.
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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