undirected

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Charles Darwin, with his ideas of undirected variation and natural selection, described what was really happening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

"It will move faster, because evolution is undirected," says Burden.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

That said, it’s a mess of a book, fuzzy, disorganized, and maddeningly undirected.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 7, 2016

But it had the desired effect, heightening anticipation and, if not clearing the mind, at least reducing it to a state of undirected boredom.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2015

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

From "1984" by George Orwell