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indeterminately

adverb

as in vaguely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indeterminately
  1. vaguely
  2. nebulously
  3. narrowly
Adverb
  • From a distance roughly equivalent to the size of the plates, two rough-textured, vaguely oblong stones lean toward them.
    — Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Behind him, against the restaurant’s white fence, is a vaguely biblical lime tree.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of vaguely
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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 human question As far as human spaceflight goes, SpaceX has been narrowly focused on retrofitting Starship for a multibillion-dollar NASA contact to ferry government astronauts to the moon amid a space race with China.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The leftist Roberto Sánchez unexpectedly surged in the first round of presidential elections but ultimately lost narrowly in the runoff to the right-wing candidate, Keiko Fujimori.
    — DAN RESTREPO, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
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“Indeterminately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indeterminately. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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