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 innovative tool leverages advanced AI algorithms to process raw, unstructured data into valuable insights that businesses can act on immediately.
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
However, the challenge remains in ensuring sustainability doesn’t exist as a series of unstructured, albeit well-intentioned, initiatives.
—Magnus Ahlqvist, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
These new spaces could blend traditional elements — communal dining rooms, entertainment venues and plenty of unstructured spaces for kids to explore — with modern amenities like co-working spaces for parents who can’t fully disconnect and teen lounges that thoughtfully integrate technology.
—Sara Fredman Aeder, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
Data Analysis Businesses are increasingly relying on transforming unstructured data into actionable insights to drive growth, improve user satisfaction and maintain a competitive edge in the market.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
However, the challenge remains in ensuring sustainability doesn’t exist as a series of unstructured, albeit well-intentioned, initiatives.
—Magnus Ahlqvist, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
These new spaces could blend traditional elements — communal dining rooms, entertainment venues and plenty of unstructured spaces for kids to explore — with modern amenities like co-working spaces for parents who can’t fully disconnect and teen lounges that thoughtfully integrate technology.
—Sara Fredman Aeder, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
Data Analysis Businesses are increasingly relying on transforming unstructured data into actionable insights to drive growth, improve user satisfaction and maintain a competitive edge in the market.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unstructured
Adjective
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Spaces brimming with personality that feels intentional and curated, as opposed to chaotic.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Jan. 2025
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The playful jab sets a humorous tone for what’s sure to be a chaotic day of competition and drama.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In a tragic instant, Thompson became a scapegoat for the legitimate—but until now, amorphous—rage people have about America’s health-care system, in which a company’s profits can be someone else’s broken life.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
25 Jan. 2025
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One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.—
Bill Rokos,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 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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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
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What’s unformed and ungainly here makes that patience finite.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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 2 Feb. 2025.
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