unspecific
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If I was consistently tapping into events of my own life, I feel like that well would run dry at some point, or start to feel stale or unspecific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Lin ruled that the NIH grants were suspended by form letters that were unspecific to the research, a likely violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which regulates executive branch rulemaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
He said local police took appropriate investigative measures, but the matter was unspecific.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
Finding research on adult orphan daughters is harder, and even good work is mostly parental-sex unspecific.
From Salon ● May 11, 2024
Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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