nonspecific
Example Sentences
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There’s also a reference to septicemia, which is writer-director Emerald Fennell’s perhaps too-technical stab at explaining the nonspecific Victorian disease that afflicts one character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Part of the reason chronic Lyme has always been controversial is that its symptoms are so nonspecific.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 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
Amid whatever contentious points they wanted to score, presidents have nearly always reverted to some broad-minded but nonspecific celebration of diversity and pluralism.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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
