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Recent Examples of undirected
The Nobel committee focused its remarks on the foundational aspects of artificial neural networks: the ability to feed unfathomably large and complex amounts of data into an algorithm that will then, more or less undirected, detect previously unseen and consequential patterns in those data.
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Klein predicted that a few crows would learn the association between their undirected action and the reward, and start bringing coins of their own accord.
—Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
Online undirected robo-casting attracts thousands of unqualified candidates; and pits talent against each other in open-market bidding for the job.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 23 June 2023
Blind rage: Uncontrolled, undirected, unstoppable.
—Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
Unfortunately, standard low-diameter decomposition algorithms only work on undirected graphs — those in which every edge can be traversed in both directions.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
Scientists have long been able to reactivate old memories, but only in a crude and undirected way.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2012
Participants assigned to pray every day (either an undirected prayer or a prayer for a relationship partner) for 4 weeks drank about half as much alcohol at the conclusion of the study as control participants.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2011
The Costanza character parallels generations of undirected school students who have never had the opportunity to learn how to follow their passion toward a career goal.
—Janine Yass, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undirected
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Life is a random, crazy, spinning, dipping, twisting and thrilling roller coaster anyway.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Our production designer had to find some random collector in Germany who had it.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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But all that realistically aimless setup is worth the payoff, because once the screaming starts, the movie transforms into an arrestingly abstract nightmare, psychedelically splintering time and space and reality around the characters.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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The aimless offenses allowed the Pelicans to go on a 13-0 run and take a 17-point lead after one period.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Instead of relying on haphazard observations and product claims, the Outside Lab @ CU Denver set up an experiment to find out which travel mug keeps beverages warmest the longest.Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
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At times, the company seems to police videos primarily in response to public outcry, which makes its decisions inherently haphazard and potentially malleable.Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2018
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Marine biologists had thought that the pelvic bones were purposeless in the marine environment, and would eventually disappear given another million or so years of evolution.Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
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But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 May 2022
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In Australia, a Chevron natural gas plant went offline for unplanned repairs, driving up global energy prices.Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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His administration has pointed out that prices spike when refineries experience unplanned maintenance problems with their equipment, which limits the amount of gasoline available in the state and drives up prices.Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
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What’s meant to feel strange or unsettling often just feels random and unconsidered.Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 May 2024
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Each space was personalized with different features, no aspect left unconsidered or half-baked.Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
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State officials emphasized that the incident was inadvertent, has been rectified, and has not affected the election process.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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And then there is Loren Munk’s wildly colored painting of a map with text that recounts the galleries of Soho — perhaps an inadvertent nod at the gravitational pull of the Manhattan art scene and its wealthy patrons.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Richmond initially was charged with unpremeditated murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.CBS News, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2024
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His determination to capture the naturalistic, unpremeditated aspects of his subjects made his work pulse with a startling sense of life.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
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“Undirected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undirected. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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