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Noun
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The brain is also far more adept at handling things like ambiguity, subtlety, and nuance.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026 -
What qualifies is highly subjective, but that ambiguity has overwhelmingly benefited federal officers, according to the two legal scholars.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
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By including what the workers have discovered about their clients and deconstructing AI training systems from the inside out, Gourault challenges the opacity of automotive businesses that seek to conceal their association with extractive labor practices.—
Farren Fei Yuan,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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What is different is the scale, the opacity and the fact that AI can turn yesterday’s seemingly harmless data into something far more revealing tomorrow.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Despite the murkiness of sneckdowns, sanitation workers often end up taking care of them.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
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There’s some murkiness about where the recipe originated; both baking brands White Lily and Martha White claim to have pioneered the beloved bread.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
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For a band that has spent so much of its career in relative obscurity, the Blue Nile have had disproportionate brushes with fame.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
1 Feb. 2026
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In the years following, Thomas went on to write and produce songs for Zendaya (another child-star alum), Post Malone, Kehlani, Drake, and Jack Harlow, contracting out his ear for sticky melodies and accessible lyricism all while quietly releasing mixtapes under his own name in obscurity.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Obscureness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscureness. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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