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Recent Examples of opacity Pressing the gear icon brings up a list of attributes to customize, including font size, font color, type style, background color, and window opacity. PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025 The black box problem refers to the opacity of certain AI systems. David Paffenholz, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 This opacity hampers efforts to implement effective sustainability measures and underscores the need for industry-wide standards and greater transparency in reporting energy consumption and emissions. Monica Sanders, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 The lack of a standardized definition, the opacity of family office operations, and the differing methodologies employed all contribute to the discrepancies. Francois Botha, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for opacity
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Noun
  • Be sure to make these documents easy to access and refer to for reference, which will reduce ambiguity and misinterpretations.
    Liz Guthridge, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • This spring, the London theatre shimmers with this kind of ambiguity—real king, false king, portrait, mirror.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Opacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opacity. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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