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Recent Examples of fuzziness
The scaling hypothesis—the belief that bigger models will produce more intelligent outputs—seems to rest on the dubious belief that a system that has been fed enough information about the world will not have to deal with fuzziness.
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Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fuzziness
Noun
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The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The haziness of the energy balance hides this brief imbalance, which allows the virtual particles to influence the real world.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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The haziness around the objectives may make a further extension of the federal role more likely.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Entrepreneurs hoping to make a name in the tech scene may hear O’Kelley’s early career journey and wince at the repeat firings and uncertainty that came with it.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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The new test, which boasts a 96 percent accuracy rate, offers a major step forward for patients who have often faced years of uncertainty and misdiagnosis.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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If cleaning won't take away the cloudiness of your glassware, replace.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
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Mental cloudiness gives way to crystal clarity as the sun and Mercury align.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The challenge, of course, is their faintness.—
Adam Frank,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The faintness lasted only a minute.—
Robert Easton,
Outdoor Life,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The story behind how Rudolph morphed into history’s most prolific killer during his tenure as commandant of Nazi Germany’s most notorious camp is still something of a mystery to his grandson.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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But Australian stories are still resonating with international audiences and many of the recent breakout hits have a mystery at their heart or offer a laugh with a bit of bite.—
Paul Chai,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Fuzziness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fuzziness. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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