nonspecific
Example Sentences
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Part of the reason chronic Lyme has always been controversial is that its symptoms are so nonspecific.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
They are the broad, nonspecific response of your body, which is bolstering your immune system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
"We could design an even better nonspecific vaccine to mobilize and reset the immune response, in a way that could essentially be a universal, off-the-shelf cancer vaccine for all cancer patients."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025
There were placeholders and they were nonspecific enough that we felt that they’d be appropriate — the scene was Abbott on the roof, I make reference to having made a speech, the speech was TBD.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
