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Adjective
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Some events, perhaps especially those that are morally incomprehensible, need to be wrestled with on a human level.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
17 Aug. 2025 -
To many others, the value of these relationships is incomprehensible.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Tyler, the Creator has turned 2025’s Camp Flog Gnaw announcement into a puzzling quest.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
21 Aug. 2025
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That makes the move a bit puzzling, given the drop-off in competition and quality from the Bundesliga to the MLS.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Finishing the last mile still requires judgment, cleanup, and sometimes a rewrite of potentially indecipherable code.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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But previously indecipherable 20-year-old data from NASA and European Space Agency telescopes suggests that flares from magnetars that formed much earlier — during the infancy of the universe — may have provided another way for the creation of gold, Burns said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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The law is vague and broad and included no room for considering the literary merit of the work, and so the result was a wave of book bans across the state.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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My ideas around him were vague and uninformed, mostly of the stiff host tolerating the younger acts.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Padres’ first game post-deadline got off to a slow start, but an inexplicable decision and an error by Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras helped lead to a four-run fifth inning and got the Padres on their way to a 4-1 victory.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
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To make matters more inexplicable, the council promoted the assistant city manager to the top post, paying her a base salary of $363,000.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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That would be the mysterious Dao Ming (Shang-Chi‘s Fala Chen), a casino employee with secrets of her own.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
19 Aug. 2025
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Struggling to keep up with his fast-rising debts, he is offered a lifeline by the mysterious Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino employee with secrets of her own.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This has led to numerous fan theories attempting to make sense of the franchise’s nebulous logic, including the idea that tournament organizer Calypso is a devil figure and the whole thing is some form of purgatory, or that there are multiple timelines.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2025
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Most are nebulous, designed to give away as little as possible.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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His classical, sometimes obscure tastes contrasted with Pomeranz’s appreciation for Hollywood blockbusters, making their debates supremely entertaining as well as enlightening.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Some — like the emblem of the 101st Airborne and the 1st Cavalry — are easily recognizable but others are more obscure.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Obfuscatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscatory. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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