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as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
it's pretty foggy outside, so be careful driving home
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
could only see a foggy outline of the intruder in the dark
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Recent Examples of foggy
But, on a foggy Christmas night, Santa asks Rudolph to guide his sleigh through a terrible storm, an act that saves the holiday and turns Rudolph into a hero.
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
After one particularly challenging transcontinental flight with a diaper blowout and a toddler with motion sickness, my husband disembarked in foggy San Francisco wearing just swim trunks and a short-sleeve T-shirt.
—Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
No matter how many times a player has trod through the foggy streets of Silent Hill, the town is never anything less than unnerving.
—Richard Newby, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
Their respective cars wound up getting lost in the foggy San Francisco Bay.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
After one particularly challenging transcontinental flight with a diaper blowout and a toddler with motion sickness, my husband disembarked in foggy San Francisco wearing just swim trunks and a short-sleeve T-shirt.
—Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
No matter how many times a player has trod through the foggy streets of Silent Hill, the town is never anything less than unnerving.
—Richard Newby, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
Their respective cars wound up getting lost in the foggy San Francisco Bay.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foggy
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Our picture of what is happening and probably will happen on Earth is less hazy than it’s ever been.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Beers touch on all styles from Pilsner to a hazy fruit double IPA (DIPA).Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Many in the country have not given up hope the stadium — widely reported to have cost around $500million (£398m), although precise figures are vague — will stage the tournament’s final.Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Make your meetings tight and focused instead of sprawling and vague.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Mayfair Witches is off to the misty isles of Scotland in its second season, introducing us to new members of the family who still live in the ancestral homelands of their witchy dynasty.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Grant was gracious in her acceptance, and there were more than a few misty eyes seen around the venue during her speech.LaRawn Scaife Rhea, The Tennessean, 2 June 2024
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These include detailed observations of the super-heated plasma that fills the space between galaxies — known as the intracluster medium — and faint light emitted by a nearby supernova remnant.Victoria Corless, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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The early fixtures are pretty low-key, although there is the faint whiff of a prospective upset with League One Peterborough against increasingly beleaguered Everton.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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Eighteen months ago, the Jewish Museum London, which occupied an idiosyncratic, homely town house in Camden, where my wife and I used to take our kids on rainy weekends, closed its doors for lack of funding.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, social media users watching from home couldn't resist commenting on the rainy event.Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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But the rules are murky and 'published' is a term of art in copyright law that was not well-defined.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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For starters, much of the hype around generative AI was focused specifically on the threat of deepfakes, which experts and pundits worried had the potential to flood the already murky information space and fool the public.Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Foggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foggy. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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