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Noun
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What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026 -
Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2026
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Duco negates the need for any human intervention by leveraging a hanging robotic system that automatically sketches multi-layered circuity to enable novel large-scale interfaces.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Oct. 2021
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Mazzone hopes that studying the neural circuity for coughing will eventually lead to new therapies.—
Sarah Zhang,
Discover Magazine,
11 Apr. 2012
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The students on campus, with little information and more than enough vagueness to envision the worst, did just that.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2026
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Esenin-Volpin’s work was a call for a new kind of mathematics that could, in some sense, tolerate vagueness.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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The uncertainties that led to disquiet over nuclear power across the country in the 1970s and 1980s have not gone away but have changed as technology has evolved.—
Krisztian Elcsics,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Senate leadership was ousted just hours before Duterte’s impeachment trial moves to that chamber, creating political uncertainty and complications for the proceedings.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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None of us can know the profoundness of their loss.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
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Miralot is also helping film students to better grasp the complexities of the international festival circuit, says Steve Reverand, co-director of the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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The complexity of your record-keeping Depending on your record keeping and business model, digital alternatives to adding machines may better suit your needs.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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“Indirectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectness. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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