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Recent Examples of vagueness
Our mission to bolster the neighborhoods on the West, East and Midtown areas of our city persists even in the veil of vagueness that now surrounds the prison’s future.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
That vagueness cuts against a criminal prosecution.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
A certain amount of vagueness is going to arise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Olson, however, doesn't trust that the law will safeguard consumers, pointing to the vagueness inherent in the law's language charging the commission with evaluating a project’s reasonableness.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
Laws holding parents accountable were and are widely varied in severity and implementation, with vagueness and inconsistency being the hallmarks.
—Ellen Sauerbrey, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2025
Khomeini’s vagueness was central to his leadership.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
That vagueness cuts against a criminal prosecution.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
A certain amount of vagueness is going to arise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Olson, however, doesn't trust that the law will safeguard consumers, pointing to the vagueness inherent in the law's language charging the commission with evaluating a project’s reasonableness.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
Laws holding parents accountable were and are widely varied in severity and implementation, with vagueness and inconsistency being the hallmarks.
—Ellen Sauerbrey, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2025
Khomeini’s vagueness was central to his leadership.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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In reality, for decades Netanyahu has upheld Israel's policy of ambiguity.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Human creativity thrives in ambiguity and adaptive thinking.—
Sarat Chakravarthi,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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All of this speaks to overall murkiness around metrics in the fast-growing industry and the possibility that they might be manipulated.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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From beach books to profundity, long-form fiction opened minds and shrank the world.—
Doug McIntyre,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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Much of Gilbert’s early work displays an awareness of both the profundity and the transience of romance, and of the many different universes that one life can open into or contain.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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