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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of underspecify.

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Examples

  • Instead, we treat zero as underspecified or dual-specified for agreement, and allow it to take either singular or plural agreement.

    None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • OpenSocial did start with vcard, but grew based on converging fields from multiple existing social networks, and clarifying the missing or underspecified parts of vcard.

    Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity 2008

  • Indeed I did tell them that their estimates are suspiciously high because their model is underspecified.

    Archive 2009-11-01 EliRabett 2009

  • Some of those arose from ambiguities, some were policy differences that were underspecified by the Constitution.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More from Richard Epstein on the Sotomayor Nomination, 2009

  • Intuitively, we want to say the question is underspecified.

    The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

  • Indeed I did tell them that their estimates are suspiciously high because their model is underspecified.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Developing similar and richer models of the political success of constitutional methodologies will help to round out heretofore underspecified theories of how constitutional change occurs outside of the Article V process.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • But despite these differences, the Scanlonian slogan shares with the Sidgwickian slogan the feature of being massively underspecified.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • Since Turing doesn't tell us how he supposes that levels of success in the imitation game correlate with increases in confidence that the participant in question is intelligent, there is a sense in which The Turing Test is greatly underspecified.

    The Turing Test Oppy, Graham 2008

  • Developing similar and richer models of the political success of constitutional methodologies will help to round out heretofore underspecified theories of how constitutional change occurs outside of the Article V process.

    Greene on Selling Originalism Mary L. Dudziak 2008

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