undefinable

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Recent Examples of undefinable Advertisement Food The undefinable cooking at Poltergeist will haunt you Oct. 12, 2023 Button Mash was home to a number of pop-ups throughout the years, including the long-running Starry Kitchen, a 101 List awardee under former L.A. Times Food critic Jonathan Gold. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024 Miryang is neither a respite for Shin-ae nor an escape, but rather some undefinable cross between the two. Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024 The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art. Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
Adjective
  • Perez Hilton, among others, suggested Hewitt and Gellar were still engaged in an undefined, decadeslong feud after Gellar dodged questions about Hewitt on a red carpet and excluded her from an Instagram Story about the film.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 July 2025
  • Birdsell intends to keep the listing — with Denise Taylor of Green Tree Real Estate — up for six months before taking it down for listing at a later, undefined date.
    Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • An indeterminate tomato plant will keep growing until the first frost (or you) kills it.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
  • Oregon’s moist Pacific Northwestern climate is ripe with dead and decomposing wood and plant material, providing ample space and food for the humongous fungus to continue its growth at an indeterminate rate.
    Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • But even that latter monster showed only a shimmering red blob of a planet with shifting, indistinct imagery.
    Rod Pyle, Space.com, 14 July 2025
  • In years to come, the memories would have been indistinct.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Whether the court grants access to the grand jury documents remains uncertain, but for now, Trump appears determined to reclaim control of the narrative.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Still, for Connecticut’s two Job Corps centers, the future is uncertain.
    Janhavi Munde, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Brittany Schaefer, public information officer for the state Department of Public Health, said since January there have been 389 unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths.
    Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2025
  • Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • These days, my summers are hardly indistinguishable from the rest of the year — busy, overscheduled, gone in a snap — with the exception of more sunshine and excellent produce.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Items for sale include hemp THCA flower, which is indistinguishable from marijuana buds without sophisticated lab testing.
    A.J. Herrington, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a surprising and inexplicable way, as takeoffs and landings ceased, the feverish activity that airport grass hides under its seemingly peaceful surface came to a screeching halt.
    Fabio Morábito, New Yorker, 24 July 2025
  • Among the new cast, Sui Wonders’s Ava is the most direct Julie James avatar: the brainy brunette with a haunted look in her eyes and an inexplicable, undying lust for her high-school boyfriend.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 July 2025

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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