murkiness

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Recent Examples of murkiness The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification. Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 All of this speaks to overall murkiness around metrics in the fast-growing industry and the possibility that they might be manipulated. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025 The discourse about the meteorite is shedding light on the murkiness around who owns space rocks that fall to Earth — a convoluted issue, according to the Heritage article. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murkiness
Noun
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.
    Lana Lin September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Murkiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murkiness. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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