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Adjective
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Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
3 Aug. 2025 -
Her scream resonated with the one in my chest while also being incomprehensible and beyond me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Even more puzzling is the UFC dropping a heavyweight who’s only 33.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The firm then pivoted to focus on selling carbon credits, a puzzling, dramatic shift that Forbes chronicled two years ago.—
Stephen Pastis,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Finishing the last mile still requires judgment, cleanup, and sometimes a rewrite of potentially indecipherable code.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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But previously indecipherable 20-year-old data from NASA and European Space Agency telescopes suggests that flares from magnetars that formed much earlier — during the infancy of the universe — may have provided another way for the creation of gold, Burns said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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My ideas around him were vague and uninformed, mostly of the stiff host tolerating the younger acts.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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The law is vague and broad and included no room for considering the literary merit of the work, and so the result was a wave of book bans across the state.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The decline, across the board, was almost inexplicable last season.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
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The idea that this is how someone responds to pretty basic requests is sort of inexplicable.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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As the stakes rise inside and outside the family, a mysterious new threat emerges…one that could unravel the Russos forever.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Things took a turn after the former couple found their dog Musso chewing on a mysterious object.—
Daysia Tolentino,
EW.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Most are nebulous, designed to give away as little as possible.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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Reasons for Optimism Pace is a bit of a nebulous term because it can be showcased in a variety of ways.—
Tom Rende,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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His classical, sometimes obscure tastes contrasted with Pomeranz’s appreciation for Hollywood blockbusters, making their debates supremely entertaining as well as enlightening.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Some — like the emblem of the 101st Airborne and the 1st Cavalry — are easily recognizable but others are more obscure.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Obfuscatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscatory. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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