as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
managed to discern a blurry, indistinct shadow through the downpour
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Recent Examples of indistinct
The series begins with a murder in tiny Dahlonega, an indistinct town an hour from Atlanta.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
What is Father Jud Duplenticy’s body art, so blurry and indistinct?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Richter also played around with electronic music as well, sampling Elizabethan-era instruments but recontextualizing them to create an awestruck, indistinct sense of the unseen world in which young Hamnet finds himself.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.
—Christopher P. Davey, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
What is Father Jud Duplenticy’s body art, so blurry and indistinct?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Richter also played around with electronic music as well, sampling Elizabethan-era instruments but recontextualizing them to create an awestruck, indistinct sense of the unseen world in which young Hamnet finds himself.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.
—Christopher P. Davey, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indistinct
Adjective
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This year, the administration’s budget proposal doesn’t include a hard deadline for phasing out SLS and Orion, just the vaguer request to look for commercial alternatives.—
Sana Pashankar,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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There’s just sort of vague purple-ish themes throughout the special.—
Deputy Entertainment,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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It’s held together by the faintest pulse of a bassline.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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Gomeisa is a fainter star just to the upper right of Procyon.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Hole was a place where a mother was blind, deaf, and utterly disconnected to her previous life, the concepts of career and friendship and exercise and positive reinforcement just hazy memories of a distant realm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Article continues below Star clusters and dimmer nebulas are visible threaded through the galactic plane, while the Large Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way — appears as a hazy patch of light to the bottom right of the shot.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Indistinct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indistinct. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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