How to Use nonspecific in a Sentence

nonspecific

adjective

• The rash is nonspecific, pale pink, and mostly widespread on the neck and chest.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• Nike nonspecific about plans to open a new store in North or Northeast Portland.
  — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• The symptoms for glioblastoma are very nonspecific most times, too, with nausea and headaches chief among them.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• The rash is nonspecific, pink, and prominent on the torso.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• For instance, in one of the 41 episodes McNear listened to, a guest made a nonspecific comment about big noses.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
• There was a vague and nonspecific plan floating over your weekend.
  — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• At first, her malaise was nonspecific: intense fatigue, an aching back and a headache that wouldn’t respond to ibuprofen.
  — Katherine Zoepf, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Of course, tiredness is a pretty nonspecific symptom (and can even be a sign of low blood sugar, as Dr. Adimoolam points out).
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 6 Nov. 2019
• ALS often starts in a fairly nonspecific way, with weakness in a person’s hand or foot.
  — Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2017
• Symptoms of lung infection are nonspecific and may include cough, fever, weight loss, shortness of breath and night sweats.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
• This relates to the many different types of ILD, as well—the symptoms are usually quite nonspecific.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• There was a vague and nonspecific plan-balloon floating over your weekend.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
• The movie predicted a future full of gender-nonspecific clothes, a recurring theme in many great sci-fi films.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• Like so much of the play, the energy of the place is haunting and familiar, even while purposefully nonspecific.
  — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• In 2016 Zendaya created the fashion line, Daya By Zendaya, to bring her cool and chic style to her fans with a collection of gender-nonspecific pieces.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Though the exact mechanism for these off-target effects of the BCG vaccine isn't clear, it's believed that the vaccine can cause a nonspecific boost of the immune response.
  — Gina Yu, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
• In the past few years, researchers have begun to learn how the innate immune cells, which are fairly nonspecific and short-lived, remember old invaders.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• Those symptoms are very nonspecific and can be present in any number of other conditions.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 16 Mar. 2021
• In another episode, for example, a guest made a nonspecific comment about big noses, according to the Ringer, which detailed the episode but did not post its audio.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• But because syndromes are nonspecific—fever, body aches and cough, for instance, could indicate either Covid-19 or the flu—lifting the signal out of the background noise is a challenge to solve.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 20 Apr. 2020
• Work with a local business and avoid businesses with vague, nonspecific names.
  — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Using drugs to selectively disable sets of immune cells in the animals, the researchers pinned the nonspecific protection to the white blood cells called macrophages.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
• But when Joe Palumbo came down with some nonspecific heel inflammation, the Rangers moved things around and created the more daunting challenge.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2020
• In the new report, doctors describe how the man progressed from initially mild, nonspecific symptoms to pneumonia on the ninth day of his illness.
  — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2020
• The Crew 2 doesn’t even have fun with the inanity inherent in chasing nonspecific social media presence points.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
• The Cryptococcus infection presents as lung disease with nonspecific flu-like symptoms, such as fever, cough and chest pain.
  — Murat Can Kalem, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2019
• Data collected from the app also showed a set of nonspecific symptoms — headache, sore throat and muscle pain — that appear before the onset of the popular symptoms, like fever, cough and lack of smell.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2020
• The nonspecific nature of some perimenopause symptoms can lead to dismissal.
  — Christine Koh, CNN, 25 June 2021
• Symptoms of chromium exposure from eating contaminated food may be nonspecific and are similar in both children and adults, according to the FDA.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Nausea is a nonspecific symptom, meaning it can be related to many different conditions, both digestive and non-digestive.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024