1
as in vague
not expressed in precise terms
their suggestion for correcting the problem is a bit unclear
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as in faint
not seen or understood clearly
obtained at best an unclear glimpse of the rarely seen bird from across the road
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Recent Examples of unclear
The legality of the whole arrangement is unclear: The agreement that allows the U.S. to rent El Salvador’s prisons is not public.
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Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
What’s unclear is what exactly is new about the recent executive order.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Russia was banned from all team sports at last year’s Paris Games and its path back into the Olympic fold remains unclear.
—Aleks Klosok, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Whether exemptions will be considered for generic drugs in shortage is unclear.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
What’s unclear is what exactly is new about the recent executive order.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Russia was banned from all team sports at last year’s Paris Games and its path back into the Olympic fold remains unclear.
—Aleks Klosok, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Whether exemptions will be considered for generic drugs in shortage is unclear.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclear
Adjective
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When breaches do occur, the notifications are often vague or slow to arrive, leaving users unaware of the risks they have been exposed to—and unsure of how to respond effectively.—
Alex Vakulov,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Cooking up breakfast, lunch and dinner miles from the vaguest evidence of human civilization becomes easier than ever before.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Mar. 2025
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My duties typically involved being sent to the nearby New York Public Library to hunt down some faint memory scratching at Carter’s brain.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy's assassination.—
Joel Shannon,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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That would be Mark Rylance as Henry’s lord privy seal, Thomas Cromwell, an endlessly fascinating and ambiguous figure—brilliant, scheming, moral—whom Rylance animates with gravity and kaleidoscopic skill.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
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An unlikely ally to Tanner and Luca as tensions rise, but loyalties remain ambiguous.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Thin lines and hazy glowing colors make the towering, randomized geometric structures look like something from a French comic book.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
16 Mar. 2025
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In the late 1970s, Saturn’s odd moon Titan, a hazy orange world, was expecting visitors — first, NASA’s Pioneer 11 probe, then the twin Voyager spacecraft.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Unclear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unclear. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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