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Recent Examples of unformed Then, as now, the old international system was unraveling while a new world order remained unformed. Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024 Malik and Eric are still too unformed to fully comprehend what this separation will mean to their lives. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2024 In local races, voters’ opinions of the candidates tend to be relatively unformed and persuadable. Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Public standards have been demolished, and that deprivation has permeated the unformed morality of the young generation. Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for unformed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unformed
Adjective
  • They are based on much more amorphous allegations, such as threats to foreign policy, or allegations related to terrorism.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Still, the benefits of switching from Windows to SteamOS might seem a bit amorphous to many players today.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • He’s been there; Harper was emotional — at times, immature — as a younger player.
    Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • From its opening scenes, Severance has presented the procedure the show is named for as a kind of birth, the spawning of a new, immature being.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Why Talent Alone Won’t Cut It: The Role Of Engineering Standards And Best Practices Many companies mistakenly believe that hiring top-tier engineers automatically leads to high-quality software, but even the best engineers can’t thrive in a chaotic environment.
    Sebastian Avila, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Carter arrives as a fumbling, awkward, lovable med student—the audience surrogate in the chaotic and intense environment of a fictional Chicago emergency ward.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Disturbing New Details Emerge About the State of the Global Climate Chronic Climate Stressors Hadfield and her team identified three main ways that climate change affected adolescent mental health.
    Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The low-scoring adolescent may not have enjoyed those same advantages and may have experienced stress due to poverty.
    Dalton Conley, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The company is also offering file transfer support for Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive for the movement of unstructured data such as PDF, video and image files (along with their metadata and permissions), making all of this data accessible for AI.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There were children as young as three years old having their first experience on the slopes to seasoned skiers whizzing down steep trails.
    Brittany Vickers, Essence, 18 Mar. 2025
  • But this is actually largely driven by younger, college-age adults.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Toward the end, though, this dubious, shapeless patchwork of a movie does achieve a strange, halting power—by making an inquiry into the nature of power itself.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • When the fish are brought to the surface, however, the comparative lack of pressure causes their bodies to collapse into shapeless puddles of goo.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Unformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unformed. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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