How To Use Unspecific In A Sentence

  • Activities of unspecific peroxidases were also measured using guaiacol as the substrate (not shown).
  • Recommended name unspecific monooxygenase Synonyms 3AH15 6 b-hydroxylase 6-b-testosterone hydroxylase aldehyde oxygenase arachidonic acid epoxygenase brain aromatase CYP102 Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Treasury, for example, gives the names of various people described as ‘managers’ - as unspecific and meaningless a title as can be imagined.
  • Italy, will send more troops but also will have to review both the political reality, but beyond that will remain unspecific for the present time. Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
  • The school ‘death threats’, some left for individual pupils named in the letters, and others aimed at unspecific pupils, ended before the culprit could be caught.
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  • But these methods are either too elaborate to be used routinely or are too unspecific, or easy to be influenced by autolysis and putrefaction of tissue, so that to be limited in forensic practice.
  • The narrative structure of the book is intentionally unspecific and jumbled.
  • Its furry texture gives it an unspecific creepiness. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It was just a general, unspecific blanket condemnation of that sort of thing, you know, to keep up appearances.
  • Then annually, AMC conducts an annual fixed buy for specific requirements and an expansion buy for anticipated but unspecific requirements.
  • In theory, he said while these were a good idea, there were ‘reservations’ among the committee about the nature of the waste involved and the company had consistently been very unspecific.
  • How could they endorse the idea that love and intimacy should be postponed - not until an unspecific age of maturity has been reached but until marriage, regardless of when it happens?
  • Secondly, make allowance for the fact that memory obviously fades, memories on all sides fade over a period of 20 years and as a result evidence about certain aspects of the case may be vague and may be unspecific.
  • The article reports that the nature of the threat was "unspecific" leading me to believe that it never got much past the wishing stage. Soccer Dad
  • Reducing resource limits in PHP can produce unspecific error messages and nebulize the origin of a problem. Planet PHP
  • The Goya concept is inspired by the idea of the cosmos, blending totality with the unspecific.
  • He's referring specifically/unspecifically to "the nanny or household tax problems and so forth" in the Obama administration: Woodward's ominous and vague prediction of scandal: "I say it's not over."
  • It does not help that a good deal here is very unspecific. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He is unspecific about the details — perhaps he is embarrassed? Times, Sunday Times
  • Unspecific porins have repeatedly been described as passive, water-filled channels facilitating the diffusion of ions and polar molecules up to the size of trimeric oligosaccharides.
  • In service of these unspecific fears, we would be denying ourselves the fruits of scientific breakthroughs that have already occurred or are much more imminent.
  • It claims entitlement to an unspecific open-ended incentive derived from exploiting a natural resource.
  • In some, the 'rescue' is clearly compassionate, but the narratives are unspecific. Times, Sunday Times
  • Be warm and loving, but unspecific. Times, Sunday Times
  • The GAO last month criticized the draft as too unspecific.
  • Government is simplest when it is unspecific—it's when it starts trying to subdivide the population and impact only targeted groups that it becomes hard to administer think of how little trouble seniors have accessing a universal program like Social Security versus how much trouble the poor have trying to determine eligibility for a means-tested program like Medicaid. What happened to Obama-ism?
  • felt an unspecific dread
  • These may be unspecific longings for more freedom in our lives, to find a spiritual pathway that will lead us away from this bizarre and confusing life we are forced to live, to be more understanding or more understood.
  • He takes his place in the new date-unspecific, genre-bending scheme of things with assurance rather than gaucheness. Times, Sunday Times
  • “It was a madhouse,” he tells me unspecifically, neither lying nor telling the truth. Chuck Klosterman on Rock
  • The revised title for next week's results is by Kevin Dopart; this week's honorable-mentions subhead is by Craig Dykstra. in which we asked rather unspecifically for nerdy, quantitatively leaning musings: Style Invitational Week 872: Make a word out of a name; and geeky musings
  • After the SAM formation, the complete array was immersed in casein to block "unspecific" binding of melittin and lipid to the silicon PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Her omission of any discussion of human shields while reporting from Gaza while on the other hand answering that question, though as briefly and unspecifically as possible, in a broadcast heard only locally in New York is significant: she would like to continue reporting from Gaza. Q. and A. With Taghreed El-Khodary in Gaza - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • It's usually something unspecific, such as a migraine. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest remains unspecific and therefore solutions are hard to come by.
  • The other way to solve this problem is a ‘living constitution’ interpretation enumerating rights that are listed unspecifically at best. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Constitutional Flame Bait
  • Make no mistake, Feingold's motion to censure is not a foolish nuisance interrupting your busy lawmaking schedules, not an unnecessary distraction from the great work of appealing as unspecifically as possible to enough disgruntled Republicans that we can eke out a tarnished and compromised numerical victory in November. Frank Dwyer: Senators: Stand with Feingold
  • Angst - an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
  • So far the government has anonymously floated various possible charges to a willing and largely supportive media: fraud against the team's sponsor, the Postal Service or even an unspecific more general fraud, all somehow related to the vague idea that Armstrong and other riders allegedly took substances that were criminal. Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong's Trial: Franz Kafka, Anyone?
  • The reasons for these unspecific effects remain unclear.
  • The architects have responded by creating a wonderful suite of fine rooms of varying scale and size, unspecific in their function, divided by double-glazed doors that recess into adjacent walls when open.
  • The reason for my being unspecific in the "cloud of witnesses" finale was that I felt by this point my reader should have been brought to the point where he or she could become a co-imaginer with me, filling in more than is on the page, and deserving of having his or her name in the credits that roll at the end of the film. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • One of the salient characteristics of the book is that it is unspecific about the exploitation it seeks to fight against.
  • But, for believers, it matters not a jot that no one has yet located the walnut-sized tardis in the brain where the soul resides, because for them, an intrinsic part of the self is always located in the unspecific au-délà, the placeless beyond, being held or held over by forces beyond comprehension. Dead Right « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Label packs as, ‘full of goodness’, ‘wholesome’ or ‘nutritious’ - terms which are vague and unspecific.
  • It's a fair point, but the potential solutions he offers are woolly and unspecific. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've been told that there were bomb threats, unspecific threats made this morning by telephone to the governor's office, apparently.
  • Professional advisers say successful people are often vague and unspecific when asked what their objectives are.
  • It broke with the "unspecific" tax-protest vibe writer Ed Brubaker was striving for and left Marvel vulnerable to charges it was "picking" on the tea-baggers. Post-gazette.com - News
  • Have you received any of those unspecific 'happy new year' text messages? Times, Sunday Times
  • He said there had been a number of bomb threats since the attacks but described them as unspecific, adding it was "normal" some people would seek to create more fear after such a tragedy. Norway police end Utøya search as further 24 victims named
  • These three predictions are - in turn - highly likely, possible but unspecific, and rather vague - to put it kindly.
  • It was just a general, unspecific blanket condemnation of that sort of thing, you know, to keep up appearances.
  • We are left with the unspecific practical objection, the objection that is as much to say that only seeing is believing.

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