How to Use indeterminacy in a Sentence

indeterminacy

noun

• To build a world in the fullest sense of the word requires an almost Buddha-like commitment to self-negation and indeterminacy.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The indeterminacy of the paintings extends to Kurant’s practice as a whole.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• That feeling of indeterminacy is, of course, the very allure of an alcoholic buzz.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• Undated ballots and the like are the new hanging chads, a source of indeterminacy, which is election poison.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 May 2022
• The first half of the concert focuses on indeterminacy and includes pieces that are loosely designed to achieve unknown results.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• These are pages intended to catch the shape of a writer’s thoughts—the tome remains more of a notebook than a series of persuasive essays, with all the indeterminacy and occasional solipsism that form entails.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Jan. 2017
• One the one hand, Dorman explained, the concerto makes salient use of modern techniques, such as indeterminacy and disjointed tempi.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• The dual and dueling narrators lend the events of the book a high level of indeterminacy that proves both mysterious and entertaining.
  — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
• One of Blair’s defining qualities as a British politician was his indeterminacy: of place, of background, of ideology.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 May 2017
• The convention of courtroom journalism is to make a scruple of indeterminacy.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2022
• But again, this indeterminacy also means that there are near-infinite bad algorithms, too.
  — Joseph Franklin, Scientific American, 11 June 2018
• Fiocre more mysterious and suggesting the indeterminacy of the backstage world.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• Pendleton, 38, whose work often incorporates language layered like a palimpsest, finds his artistic connection to Simone in a shared commitment to the complexity, at times the indeterminacy, of voice.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The experiment took quantum indeterminacy to a whole new level.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
• The team is now researching perceptions of aleatory uncertainty — unknowns about the future due to randomness, indeterminacy, chance or luck.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• In short, the tendency for systems to move from low entropy to high entropy, the particular spacetime conditions of our solar system and the indeterminacy of the future combine to create our particular conception of time.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• Again the concept isn’t clear, but its indeterminacy offers a convenient vessel for pouring in propaganda about race and ethnicity.
  — John O. McGinnis, WSJ, 15 July 2021
• As if straining to recoup the novel’s difficulty, Gyllenhaal cultivates indeterminacy—a form of faux-difficulty, too little mind instead of too much.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2023
• Like her, these characters are diffident, aimless, frustrated; they are stalled in their careers and ambivalent about their romantic partners, as if the acute experience of racial indeterminacy has diffused into something more banal.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• Could the underlying cause of quantum indeterminacy be deterministic chaos at some much smaller subquantum scale?
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• How many people, generally unmotivated to learn, find their way to a concept as intimidating as, say, quantum indeterminacy by way of the (far more welcoming) simulation argument?
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
• Its radical indeterminacy, its abyss of unstable identities and unresolved mysteries, is at the heart of Lou’s bold political diagnostics.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Your writing is full of indeterminacy and irresolution.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• The effect is a paradoxical sense of both particularity and indeterminacy, exposure and concealment.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022

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