INDETERMINATELY Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

indeterminately

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as in vaguely

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Some jokes, including a riff on the history of the Wright Brothers, feel vaguely Dada, as if Marino and Wain had spent a long, happy stretch of aimless days drinking coffee and free-associating.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026
Early in this week’s episode of Cape Fear, Natalie Bowden has been sent away from the latest mortal threat to the Bowden family and asked to spend some time with Paul, the vaguely smarmy man that she’s long been told is her biological father.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026

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For the most part, big superhero movies from DC and Marvel tend to be a hodgepodge of adaptation, with filmmakers borrowing freely and nebulously from decades of winding comic-book continuity.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 June 2026
The doctrine of the containment of communism thus gave birth to a more concretely geopolitical—as opposed to nebulously civilizational—West, soon embodied in new institutions such as NATO, an integrating Europe, and the OECD.

— Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025

Definition of nebulously

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The company narrowly missed first-quarter revenue expectations in April, Reuters reported.

— Israel Schuman, Des Moines Register, 9 July 2026
Finally, Lionel Messi's Argentina, having narrowly advanced, faces a defensive-minded Switzerland, with Argentina expected to win despite recent close calls.

— Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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