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as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
it's pretty foggy outside, so be careful driving home
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
could only see a foggy outline of the intruder in the dark
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Recent Examples of foggy
The past few weeks may have thrown your schedules off, drained your motivation, or left you foggy about how to care for yourself.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 10 Aug. 2025
The advisory is in effect until 11 a.m. Driving in foggy conditions
A dense fog advisory is issued by your local National Weather Service office when widespread dense fog develops.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
—Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
However, what happens to open-air laser signals on a rainy or foggy day?
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 10 Aug. 2025
The advisory is in effect until 11 a.m. Driving in foggy conditions
A dense fog advisory is issued by your local National Weather Service office when widespread dense fog develops.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
—Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
However, what happens to open-air laser signals on a rainy or foggy day?
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foggy
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This character development does not really land, however, and Mersault becomes increasingly hazy, disappearing into a cloud of abstraction in the third act.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
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People take pictures with the Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas sign under hazy orange skies as the sun sets in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 29, 2023.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Allowing the President to unlawfully remove Governor Cook on unsubstantiated and vague allegations would endanger the stability of our financial system and undermine the rule of law.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But many of the recommendations were vague or lacked the teeth some experts hoped to see from a document MAHA allies for months had said would dramatically transform the health of Americans.—
Will McDuffie,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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At her London Photocall, the root of her hair appears braided, which makes her misty texture more pieced apart.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Aug. 2025
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From the thunderous canyons of Utah to the misty peaks of China, 2025 reveals a world not only rich in beauty—but in economic might.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Applebee’s recently managed its first quarter of same-store sales growth after eight consecutive declines, a faint improvement, but one that pales in comparison to the surge at Chili’s or the steady gains at Olive Garden.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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This leads to signals that are often faint, easily drowned out by background noise, and difficult to isolate in complex biological environments such as blood or tissue.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Sep. 2025
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The North Face Men’s Alta Vista Rain Jacket Fall brings the start of the rainy season in many climates.—
Anne Taylor,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the onset of the rainy season has exacerbated already deplorable conditions, transforming dust into thick sludge, flooding fragile shelters, and bringing swarms of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Gray tones, blacks, murky greens, and of course, the midnight blue complete the look.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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But after that, things get murky.—
Sarah Hutter,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Post-pandemic immigration surges, followed by stricter enforcement, distorted many traditional labor-market signals and clouded real-time interpretation of headline statistics.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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When the cornea is clouded or scarred, the pathway is blocked even if the retina itself is healthy.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Foggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foggy. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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