nonspecific

Example Sentences

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Part of the reason chronic Lyme has always been controversial is that its symptoms are so nonspecific.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

In lab experiments, Sayour's team combined their experimental "nonspecific" mRNA vaccine with a class of anticancer drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 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