as in chaotic
having no definite or recognizable form
writes unstructured compositions that some people might not even regard as poems
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Recent Examples of unstructured
This takes aim at the pain points of analyzing unstructured data, like legal documents.
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Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
At a high level, machine learning (ML) and AI models are trained on various types of data, including text, images, structured or unstructured information, time series, metrics, and user profiles.
—Yuri Gubin, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The decor was folksy and colorful, with the brief for the flowers by Wild Gorse being unstructured ’70s.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Brown is also looking at new ways to organize structured and unstructured data from a variety of departments—legal, finance, marketing, and communications among them—and create summaries and insights from that data.
—John Kell, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
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Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
At a high level, machine learning (ML) and AI models are trained on various types of data, including text, images, structured or unstructured information, time series, metrics, and user profiles.
—Yuri Gubin, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The decor was folksy and colorful, with the brief for the flowers by Wild Gorse being unstructured ’70s.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
Brown is also looking at new ways to organize structured and unstructured data from a variety of departments—legal, finance, marketing, and communications among them—and create summaries and insights from that data.
—John Kell, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unstructured
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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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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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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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There is clearly some strife between Ben and Louise, unresolved tension that is often exacerbated by Ben’s unemployment, along with his tendency to be a formless wet blanket.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
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Read: When growing up happens in a single conversation That loose sensibility does yield a film that can feel somewhat formless, playing like an eclectic album of snapshots from Chris’s life rather than a cohesive whole.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 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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There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear.Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
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It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
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“Unstructured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unstructured. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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