How to Use transparency in a Sentence

transparency

noun
  • He says that there needs to be more transparency in the way the government operates.
  • The professor used transparencies and an overhead projector during her lectures.
  • But to what extent is transparency at the heart of this?
    Abc News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • This type of 'transparency' bodes well for those putting up the dough.
    New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2024
  • This does mean that the transparency mode doesn’t work quite as well.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The board and the state’s colleges were chastised in 2020 for a lack of transparency in what can and should be a fee.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The museum is billing the show as an act of transparency.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Members of the Salt Lake City Council said they were alarmed by the lack of transparency by the board’s process.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2022
  • Right now, there’s a huge lack of transparency around how the metaverse will work.
    WIRED, 1 Apr. 2023
  • There’s also quite a bit of transparency in the sleeves of dresses.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 6 July 2022
  • More salary transparency is likely the wave of the future.
    Aliza Knox, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Move through this with complete transparency, and with your wife by your side.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
  • There is a lack of transparency and the data can be hard to understand.
    John Kell, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The students, however, are rattled by the lack of transparency in the move.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 July 2022
  • Or, White could release the video, in the interest of transparency.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The transparency also made our students think of ghosts.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 7 May 2023
  • Your iPhone now gives you lots of transparency into what your downloads are up to.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 9 Jan. 2022
  • For full transparency, the lagoon is not completely off the tourist radar.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2024
  • That lack of transparency has raised its own questions.
    Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The other roughly 60% goes abroad, mainly to Asia, with next to no transparency about its fate.
    Saqib Rahim, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • What's in it for them is the transparency and the accountability.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 July 2022
  • Why do some folks in the workplace expect transparency but don’t extend the same to team members?
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Even though the council members all wanted to keep the Angels, the lack of transparency that night set up cries that persist to this day.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • There should be full transparency on what students in schools are being taught.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The more consumers push for transparency, the more pressure there is to improve standards.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Marks added that the lack of transparency behind this study also troubles him.
    Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, no amount of transparency will appease the critics who are certain that the press is their enemy.
    Brian Stelter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But that shouldn’t discount its value as a tool for transparency.
    Jess Rauchberg, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Our government is the custodian of public trust and taxpayer funds and we as citizens have every right to insist on transparency and accountability.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025
  • These open standards help reduce integration costs, improve transparency and future-proof core systems in the face of changing regulation and technology.
    Ismail Amla, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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