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With City Hall’s future and Mavericks arena site still undecided, ambiguity about the new convention center’s exact location and construction timeline also casts uncertainty about whether Memorial Auditorium will be ready by the May start of the 2027 season.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Entrepreneurship rewards tolerance for ambiguity and acting without certainty.—
Essence,
Essence,
14 Jan. 2026
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The group’s presence has drawn controversy through its first seven months in operation, initially for its logjam of pending deals and later for the opacity of its deliberation process.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Traditional information security methods are strained by the opacity of models with hundreds of billions of parameters spread across a complex patchwork of cloud tenancies.—
Paul Eremenko,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Despite the murkiness of the water, Chris jumped in to swim.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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That’s the murkiness that makes any grand statement about the previous 17 games difficult.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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The album’s 20 songs are the resigned and rueful sound of him making amends with his obscurity, and his larger place in the universe.—
Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
14 Jan. 2026
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Mike Tomlin was an unknown when the Pittsburgh Steelers plucked him from obscurity in 2007 and handed the young and charismatic Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator one of the most stable jobs in sports.—
Will Graves,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Obscureness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscureness. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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