undefinable

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Recent Examples of undefinable Miryang is neither a respite for Shin-ae nor an escape, but rather some undefinable cross between the two. Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
Adjective
  • The talking stage seems to be a paradoxical, almost liminal space: both liberating and frustrating, full of potential yet undefined.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at undefined in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, told the Bergen Record that most sinkholes are caused by precipitation and begin with a manmade void or a natural cave.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Unworthy takes place an indeterminate amount of time after an unspecified global catastrophe.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Anyone who's ever grown an indeterminate tomato plant or sprawling squash vine in their garden knows that many edibles need a strong support system to maximize your harvest.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of NGC 5530, which is classified as a flocculent spiral galaxy due to its patchy and indistinct arms, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The evidence against Mayers was sparse, mainly consisting of a few indistinct and inconveniently angled surveillance videos.
    Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And the partnership comes as TikTok’s future in the U.S. is uncertain.
    Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Aside from the retroactive tariffs expected to be announced this afternoon by the White House, not only is the imposition of secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian highly uncertain, but their possible nature remains inscrutable.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In 2022, Bishop-Freeman and colleagues published a paper detailing seven cases of undetermined pediatric deaths where bloodwork revealed elevated levels of melatonin.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike those issues, U.S. adults’ views on Trump’s handling of Social Security and management of the federal government are indistinguishable from his overall approval rating.
    Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The design is nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The weirdest, most inexplicable part of the bizarre spectacle?
    Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
  • President Trump has cited this supposedly inexplicable trend.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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