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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
a formless mass of clay that the potter transformed into an attractive bowl
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as in spiritual
not composed of matter
from this formless void the universe was supposed to have been created
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Recent Examples of formless
Surely the habit, in its formless bulk, could accommodate one.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Novelty stores sold Belichick costumes for Halloween, complete with formless sweatpants and a drab ski cap.
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
These were more indiscrete: vast and seemingly formless, like massive cow pies turned to stone and then broken by a nasty fall.
—Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Those with a preference for something more contemplatively formless will find the available structuring to be obtrusive, with the moments of over-explaining and narrativizing rendering the snapshots almost confusing.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
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Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
Novelty stores sold Belichick costumes for Halloween, complete with formless sweatpants and a drab ski cap.
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
These were more indiscrete: vast and seemingly formless, like massive cow pies turned to stone and then broken by a nasty fall.
—Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Those with a preference for something more contemplatively formless will find the available structuring to be obtrusive, with the moments of over-explaining and narrativizing rendering the snapshots almost confusing.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
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Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
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Still, the figures’ amorphous outlines suggest that the nature of the relationship may be more obscure.The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 19 Sep. 2024
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What happened Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, resigned Tuesday amid intense pressure over his handling of a notorious child abuser.Rafi Schwartz, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps that’s why Sedona attracts such a strong enclave of New Age spiritual devotees searching for metaphysical energy in the vortexes allegedly sprinkled throughout its buttes and spires.Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
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If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
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The digital files are incorporeal.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
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Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real-time, which then became legend.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
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The snippets of him so far are entertainingly chaotic.Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps that’s why Sedona attracts such a strong enclave of New Age spiritual devotees searching for metaphysical energy in the vortexes allegedly sprinkled throughout its buttes and spires.Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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His fascination was with light, optics and the metaphysical, his layered geometric forms made with almost scientific precision.Nargess Banks, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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One is weather, with an as-yet unformed hurricane, which will be named Helene, likely to graze Florida's space coast later this week.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
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Then, as now, the old international system was unraveling while a new world order remained unformed.Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
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Here, those words are embroidered across the front of an unstructured, six-panel canvas ball cap in a typeface design created by Elisa Wong to brand the L.A. Times’ plants coverage.Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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But the unstructured and informal nature of tips also creates problems with fairness among workers.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Formless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formless. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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