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Recent Examples of indirectness
More often, though, the indirectness and the anonymity of digital exchanges have sabotaged understanding.
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Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indirectness
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
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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
Noun
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This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Or perhaps the vagueness stems from casting a mish-mash of Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese and American actors.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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When the transcript is the record, ideas can propagate on merit, and people can no longer hide behind vagueness.—
Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
Noun
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The Seahawks have uncertainty at running back, as Kenneth Walker signed with the Chiefs, and Zach Charbonnet is recovering from a torn ACL.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Uncertainty across the region The news of peace came with a sense of bewilderment and uncertainty in a region that suffered collateral damage through months of war.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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For Twitty, the book’s profoundness resides between the lines.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
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None of us can know the profoundness of their loss.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Pricing sits at the upper end of the Turkish market, reflecting the case complexity ASMED tends to accept.—
Ascend Agency,
Daily News,
17 June 2026
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But mathematical interest in card shuffling goes beyond its combinatorial complexity.—
John Pavlus,
Quanta Magazine,
17 June 2026
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“Indirectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectness. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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