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
See All Example Sentences for indistinct
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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Unlike total solar eclipses, which reveal the sun's faint outer atmosphere, annular eclipses are still a form of partial eclipse and require proper eye protection to view safely.—
Ryan French,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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One of these experiment models, ABRACADABRA, employs high-sensitivity radio to capture the faint hum of axion’s oscillating magnetic fields thanks to the close cooperation of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Discernment is everything under this hazy transit.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Art from his personal collection fills the public spaces, and the rooms have red-stone baths, sofas detailed with luggage-style straps, and headboards painted in hazy ombres to match the sunrise.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Indistinct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indistinct. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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