as in vaguely
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Adverb
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There’s a somewhat dreamy or vaguely unreal quality to this place so far from what one typically thinks of as civilization.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2026 -
The sheet is now folded in half with a vaguely taco shape.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
20 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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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
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Acquiring a digital media startup largely reliant on reader revenue at a moment of subscription fatigue is risky — to say nothing of The Free Press’ price tag, which Puck put somewhere nebulously between $100 million and $200 million.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Cade Cunningham added 18 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds to narrowly miss his 15th career triple-double as the Pistons won their fifth straight game.—
Matt Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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China's Wang Xindi narrowly beat out Switzerland's Noe Roth to take gold in the men's freeski aerials.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Indeterminately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indeterminately. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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