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not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily people are sometimes rude to her, but fortunately she's too opaque to realize what's happening

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Recent Examples of opaque However, Atomic-6 also makes a radio-opaque version of the armor. David Szondy october 26, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025 The news coming out of Dominica is much more opaque, filtering largely through local reports since both the defense and prosecution have yet to respond to Rolling Stone for comment. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025 Inside this opaque vortex of both nonideological and ideological mayhem, the Red Shambhala scene offers kids one (ridiculous) escape hatch away from the alt-violence pipeline. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025 The opaque formula seems to favor games in which players can spend the most amount of hours, such as online multiplayer titles, according to people familiar with the calculations. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for opaque
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Adjective
  • According to the institute statement, which remained ambiguous about the mosquito’s permanence, the insect probably arrived via freight transportation.
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps its message is meant to be deliberately ambiguous—or maybe there’s no message at all.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Plot details are vague at this time, but Gilroy has said in interviews that the film revolves around a cellist.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Digging into the rumors, Snopes found several sources that may have contributed to the origin of the rumors, including social media posts and vague news headlines.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And that’s a stupid, dumb, mindless question.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On TikTok, as The Washington Post has reported, some creators are making $5,000 a month using AI tools to write scripts and animate extremely dumb viral videos where old men talk about soiling themselves.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Welch announced their album Everybody Scream back in August, following a few cryptic teasers.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This led many fans to believe that online discussions and interviews referencing his expiring contract were part of an elaborate storyline, given Kross's cryptic persona.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team connected the device to a circuit board with an amplifier – to boost faint UVA signals – and a Bluetooth chip to send real-time data to a user's smartphone.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Supermoons can appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than the faintest moon of the year.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And that’s a stupid, dumb, mindless question.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Dessert Week is the stupidest week, at least conceptually.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Prince Harry wore a black blazer over a white T-shirt with dark pants.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Its legs are a similar pale yellow color covered with irregular black and dark-brown markings, according to Omelko.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As her body began to shiver and her mind grew hazy, extraction efforts only became more difficult.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • At the new Bay View taproom, the brewery will serve small runs as well as Solemn Oath Brewery staples, such as its popular Lü Kölsch, Snaggletooth Bandana IPA, Small Wave City Club hazy IPA and Kidnapped by Vikings IPA.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Opaque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opaque. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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