uncommitted
not committed, especially not pledged or bound to a specific cause, candidate, or course of action: uncommitted delegates; uncommitted reserves.
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If you’ve got an in-between number, it’s easy to be uncommitted.
Justin Rose, with a back nine out of a dream, races to a four-shot lead at the Masters | Chuck Culpepper, Scott Allen, Des Bieler | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostHe started his senior season uncommitted and unsure where he’d end up.
Maryland’s Jake Funk has become numb to pain so the tumult of 2020 can’t faze him | Emily Giambalvo | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostPresident Obama was nearly as uncommitted to compromise as House Speaker John Boehner; he only appeared more level-headed.
Goodbye, Blue: A Post-Obama Democratic Doctrine | Doug Schoen, Jessica Tarlov | November 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAll of which is to say: this is not a decision for the uncommitted.
People under 30 are disproportionately single, religiously uncommitted, and earning incomes below the national median.
This “uncommitted” voter, folks, is also known as a Democrat.
Matt Latimer: Why I Still Hate Town-Hall Debates | Matt Latimer | October 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTRomney may be better behind a podium, but can he connect with an audience of uncommitted voters?
Brett O’Donnell: What to Watch For in the Town-Hall Debate | Brett O’Donnell | October 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST"It's like talking a lot of uncommitted small landholders into taking somebody's livery-and-maintenance," the latter said.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperIt has left no possible crime uncommitted, no possible cruelty unperpetrated.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 9 (of 12) | Robert G. IngersollIf his course had been less objectionable we ought still to keep ourselves uncommitted as to the succession.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1 | Samuel J. TildenExperience warned him that it is the sins of precaution—the follies left uncommitted—that are most regretted by men of seventy.
The Kingdom Round the Corner | Coningsby DawsonThe map gave no pledge of a road, and the guide-books were equally uncommitted.
Northern Spain | Edgar T. A. Wigram
British Dictionary definitions for uncommitted
/ (ˌʌnkəˈmɪtɪd) /
not bound or pledged to a specific opinion, course of action, or cause
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