as in chaotic
having no definite or recognizable form
writes unstructured compositions that some people might not even regard as poems
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Recent Examples of unstructured
The constant chaos and the kind of unstructured nature of the team were a big part of that.
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Emile Nuh, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Evidence increases freedom From the 20th-century belief that instruction should be tailored to students’ skull shape to the 1970s movement promoting unstructured learning in classrooms without walls, pseudoscience and fads have obstructed improvements in education.
—Nicole M. McNeil, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Sources of customer feedback like call transcripts, emails or chat streams are what’s known as unstructured data.
—Tom Lewis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Rest and unstructured downtime, already scarce commodities in a young family, become scarcer.
—Zachary Przystup, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Emile Nuh, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Evidence increases freedom From the 20th-century belief that instruction should be tailored to students’ skull shape to the 1970s movement promoting unstructured learning in classrooms without walls, pseudoscience and fads have obstructed improvements in education.
—Nicole M. McNeil, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Sources of customer feedback like call transcripts, emails or chat streams are what’s known as unstructured data.
—Tom Lewis, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Rest and unstructured downtime, already scarce commodities in a young family, become scarcer.
—Zachary Przystup, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unstructured
Adjective
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Moreover, the chaotic layoff of federal workers will likely lead to a rise in unemployment and tightening of spending by those losing their jobs.—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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This fresh, modern reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic by Andrew Ahn follows a group of friends who need to get married for convenience—until family arrives, and the plan spirals into extravagant, chaotic mayhem.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The city is both geographically and spiritually amorphous.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2025
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This is not one potentially wealthy amorphous group with gray hair.—
Tim Wragg,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
16 Jan. 2025
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Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2021
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“Unstructured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unstructured. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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