undefinable

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Recent Examples of undefinable Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024 The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art. Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 There’s one full of hair, a play on the undefinable ick one feels when one spots a stray hair in the sink or on the shower wall. Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024 Perhaps more than any other American player of the last decade, Eubanks has that undefinable star quality that draws fans in. Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
Adjective
  • The physics are different, the hardware is in its infancy and regulations are largely undefined.
    Raymond Huang, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Smith’s specific political beliefs are mostly undefined—which is a good thing.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the other, a woman, her face weathered to an indeterminate age and framed by a black hijab, stares into the camera.
    Eve Sampson, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • But Venture Global refused, citing the indeterminate commissioning process.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The play is now set in a purposely indistinct time period.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Often, the ad is for an indistinct mobile game featuring a woman with a freezing baby who must choose between spending her fifty gold coins on either building a working fireplace or repairing a broken window that’s letting in an icy breeze.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The ripple effect from this trade should impact two areas: The uncertain QB situation and George Pickens.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the inflation outlook is becoming more uncertain.
    Garth Friesen, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There is currently no information on the containment of the fire and its cause remains undetermined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The lawsuit is asking for an undetermined amount in damages.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • According to Colossal, their efforts — which ideally will result in creating a hybrid species that's virtually genetically indistinguishable from woolly mammoths — could also lead to breakthroughs in the fight against elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses.
    Susan Young, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The company plans to recreate the mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, by editing the genome of each species’ closest living relative to make a hybrid animal that would be visually indistinguishable from its extinct forerunner.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Which, kind of, explains Dylan’s latest inexplicable Instagram missive: a no-context re-post of a 2016 in-store performance by Machine Gun Kelly at Park Ave.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The glacial pacing and clunky script work in tandem with deviations from the source text, including an inexplicable bathtub masturbation scene, to make a cinematic crime for the ages.
    Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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