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Recent Examples of unshaped There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear. Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023 It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch. Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021 Years ago, these yew shrubs were dishevelled & unshaped, so The Prince tasked his gardeners with creating their own intriguing topiary designs. Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshaped
Adjective
  • The pair’s $800 price tag is steep, but its amorphous metal housing, 7 mm transducers, and dual-resonator chamber combine to deliver audio that’s neutral and accurate.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This time, after all, Trump ran not merely as an insurgent entertainer—an amorphous vessel for free-floating anomie—but as the scarred veteran of a decade-long ideological war, prosecuted and convicted by his enemies, his purposes hardened and sharpened by a thirst for political payback.
    Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
  • As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Social Security problems The chaotic situation around DOGE has raised concerns that federal programs such as Social Security that many Americans rely on could be impacted.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
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
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

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“Unshaped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshaped. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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