Wildcard

This wildcard character stands for an unspecified symbol.

It's Day 3 of Project Wildcard, and over half our members already ditched us.

That's the wildcard.

On Tatoeba, "Cookie" is a wildcard name for any pet.

He is perceived to be a bit of a wildcard and someone that they do not know whether or not they can rely on.

The masculine amongst us like to wonder about the future, as the feminine tend to ponder about the past. Artificial Intelligence is indeed a big "wildcard" to consider. Will humans coexist with intelligent machines? Will AI be our servant? Or, will we humans be their slaves? Will we be like cats and dogs beside intelligent machines? Will AI tolerate us? At least I can conjecture: Maybe dangerous missions like space travel will be done by AI. Will the human body be too fragile for outer space? Will "transhumanism" transform us into stronger beings, with cybernetic and bioengineered parts? These kinds of things are the stuff of science fiction stories today, but tomorrow they may be reality…

1968, Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX/VMS 319(5864), page 751, Section 2.1.2 Using Wildcard Characters A wildcard character is a symbol that you can use with many DCL commands to apply the command to several files at once, rather than specifying each file individually.

If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum.

There are several technical wildcards, such as how the larger battery packs--four times larger than those of the Prius--will withstand the rigors of city driving, […]

German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals.