How to Use nebulous in a Sentence

nebulous

adjective
  • These philosophical concepts can be nebulous.
  • Luck was just one of many strings tied to the nebulous object that was the future.
    Belinda Huijuan Tang, Vogue, 5 May 2022
  • The play is a two-hander that, while set in the modern day, has a nebulous sense of time and space.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This is an area hazier than gray and more nebulous than fog.
    Tamar Adler, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Jacob has grand, nebulous plans for his life, but these are lost in the war.
    Micah Mattix, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Blame it on the moon’s square off with nebulous Neptune!
    USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Of course the nebulous catch rule would play a role in deciding the season.
    Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • And with such a huge multi-pronged problem, the end game can be a bit nebulous.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The king of the casseroles has a nebulous yet traceable origin story.
    Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The laws of friendship are so nebulous and stretchy that what even is a breakup, anyway?
    Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective—the endgame of this war—has been nebulous.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
  • Here is a look at some of the issues that make the term terrorism so nebulous and tricky.
    Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Of course, these concepts aren’t new and can seem quite nebulous.
    Dr. Janet Ahn and Tessa West, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Trust is a nebulous thing, and something very easy to lose but very hard to regain.
    Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But in the world of cloud computing, the perimeter is more nebulous.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And this one doesn’t have a product tie-in from a nebulous specter hawking its book.
    Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 15 June 2021
  • The plan, which at this point seems to be completely nebulous, is for five starters plus one.
    Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 5 Mar. 2018
  • One of these searching souls will be left holding the nebulous prize by book’s end.
    Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • The debate over whether the disk’s iconography evokes the Bronze or Iron Age is more nebulous.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The direction of and vision for the team is amorphous and nebulous.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • The topic’s too vast and nebulous and the cultures too disparate.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody knows what will, and will not clear Valves nebulous rules.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The genre identity of the Purge movies has always been nebulous.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 July 2021
  • But, to most people, a CT scan can feel abstract and nebulous.
    Vivian Ewing, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But the nebulous nature of the program’s goals has caused some to question its value.
    Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The latter is an easy pro for the Pixelbook Go, but the former is more nebulous.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Since then, a few things have happened that provide some hints as to what Valve might mean by that nebulous term.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
  • The timing of the shutdown is somewhat nebulous right now.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Plus, the state of their relationship has been … nebulous, at best.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The data is very nebulous, and nobody actually knows the true count of these incidents for every single one of these companies.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024

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