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
By pairing their experimental "nonspecific" mRNA vaccine with immune checkpoint inhibitors -- common cancer drugs that help the immune system recognize and destroy tumors -- the researchers observed a powerful antitumor response in mice.
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
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
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
