indeterminate
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Shrinking storage levels and rising Chinese demand are biting as markets increasingly anticipate an indeterminate block to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The government will look to release some inmates who were jailed under an old indeterminate sentencing law in order to free up cells.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
USA Today published a photo earlier this year of a sailor’s mostly empty lunch tray, which included a few chunks of boiled carrot and processed meat of an indeterminate nature.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The mutations involved are associated with clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, a condition found in only a minority of people.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing indeterminate
The Hunger Games
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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