indeterminable

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Sean and I shoved her rompers and sleep sacks into a backpack, rummaged through our clothes and grabbed enough underwear for an indeterminable amount of time away.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Six months after Evan Gershkovich was arrested by Russian security services, accused of espionage and sent to a notoriously harsh Moscow prison, his family is steeling for an indeterminable wait.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Voting is everyone’s civic duty, but it can also be a disillusioning process: the long lines, all the choices that seem to boil down to the lesser of two evils, the indeterminable results.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2020

During the original investigation, the Galveston medical examiner, William Korndorffer, had declared Beason’s cause of death indeterminable; but Gill-King took one look at her remains and saw that her bones had never been properly cleaned.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2018

But if a grownup American of indeterminable age asked her for directions, invariably speaking too quickly, she merely shrugged and smiled an inane smile.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez