nonspecific

Example Sentences

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They are the broad, nonspecific response of your body, which is bolstering your immune system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 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

It seemed to be slipping so fast and precipitously that its cause had to be more than the accumulation of nonspecific skirmishes with aging.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024

Also, Chafetz wrote about how the appropriations power was, early on, used in a broad and nonspecific way, which Alito deemed unconstitutional.

From Slate • May 31, 2024

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