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  • “Found a company” is a huge, inspecific project that will sit on your list undone forever.

    Applying Unix Philosophy to Personal Productivity | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • “Found a company” is a huge, inspecific project that will sit on your list undone forever.

    Applying Unix Philosophy to Personal Productivity | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • That inspecific threat was not communicated to the proper authorities, even though many knew but they didn't do anything to act on that specific threat.

    CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2006 2006

  • Amidst all of this, he recommends being as inspecific as possible, until around September at the earliest, about suggested reforms.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » Screw the Positive Agenda? 2006

  • Then the buttons tracking its pleated front were languidly released as she stared at some inspecific point in near space, lost in her thoughts.

    Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

  • Flightstrap's plastic device mount seemed safe enough to clamp onto an iPhone or iPod-it has soft foam pads inside, and a rear screw to secure the device's position-but looked nearly as janky and about as device-inspecific as such a thing could come these days.

    iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond 2009

  • Without data, discussions of cheating in contesting all come around to inspecific allegations.

    eHam.net News 2009

  • Not only that, but it is language inspecific, editor inspecific, and works with any text from email jokes to C code.

    All DN headlines 2009

  • I have no problem with emphasizing the risk to gay men who have anal sex; you’re the one who wants to be inspecific here, not me.

    Better Dead From Cancer Than Having Sex 2005

  • Yet the few principles that might be candidates ” one ought to treat people with respect or one ought to promote human welfare or, other things equal, pleasure is good “ are all either so abstract or inspecific in their implications that they could hardly alone work to justify the full range of moral claims people are inclined to make.

    Moral Realism Sayre-McCord, Geoff 2005

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