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as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a shapeless old hat
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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
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Recent Examples of shapeless
Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
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Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Iris’ tutoring is shapeless and hardly encouraging, rousing skepticism in an older pupil (played by Hong regular Lee Hye-young) wary of her teacher’s unorthodox methods.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.
—Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
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Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Iris’ tutoring is shapeless and hardly encouraging, rousing skepticism in an older pupil (played by Hong regular Lee Hye-young) wary of her teacher’s unorthodox methods.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.
—Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
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These disorders are subdivided into courtship disorders, which resemble distorted components of human courtship behavior (voyeuristic disorder, exhibitionistic disorder, and frotteuristic disorder), and algolagnic disorders, which involve pain and suffering.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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These factors can all contribute to MMD symptoms, such as blind spots, distorted vision, or vision loss.101112 Risk Factors People with high (severe) myopia have the highest risk of MMD, though not everyone with high myopia will develop the condition.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
6 Apr. 2025
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The other two-thirds are on a scale of anxiously hopeful to beyond desperate -- an amorphous netherworld of doubt that, yes, includes the Miami Dolphins with Tua Tagovailoa, or should.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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Comedy is this huge, amorphous, unpredictable, uncontrollable thing, and there’s an SNL connection to at least half of it.—
Andy Hoglund,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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In the midst of writer’s block, Iris learns to navigate work and grief with a monstrous (also-grieving) new roommate inside her cramped West Village apartment.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
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As the Kings lead guard in the early 2000s, Bibby faced the monstrous center numerous times, including during intense playoff series when O’Neal often ribbed the franchise and a city that lustily booed him in competition.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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On the other hand, fruit trees that have been neglected have an overabundance of branches and produce fruit that is small, misshapen, and mediocre flavor.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2025
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Washing bras too often can affect the elastic and wires, leading to a misshapen bra.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
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Why Talent Alone Won’t Cut It: The Role Of Engineering Standards And Best Practices Many companies mistakenly believe that hiring top-tier engineers automatically leads to high-quality software, but even the best engineers can’t thrive in a chaotic environment.—
Sebastian Avila,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Carter arrives as a fumbling, awkward, lovable med student—the audience surrogate in the chaotic and intense environment of a fictional Chicago emergency ward.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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Traditional analysis methods often fail to process unstructured data efficiently, but AI has transformed this landscape.—
Hayk Ghukasyan,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The woven design of the fabric is an elevated upgrade to the classic pique polo in your closet to wear under an unstructured blazer with a matching pants, classic indigo jeans or even khaki shorts with a stellar pair of loafers to complete the look.—
Adam Mansuroglu,
Footwear News,
31 Mar. 2025
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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