turbidity

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Recent Examples of turbidity Years later, those breaks were used to confirm the existence of underwater landslides known as turbidity currents. PC Magazine, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turbidity
Noun
  • Covers resting directly on flat resin surfaces trap condensation, leading to discoloration or cloudiness.
    Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Widespread cloudiness is expected for a large chunk of those two days, the weather service said.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Arturo Flores, the mayor of Huntington Park, California, said the opaqueness of ICE’s current masking policy adds a dangerous layer of uncertainty.
    Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These investments are inherently complex, involving limited liquidity, higher fees, and valuation opaqueness.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Turbidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turbidity. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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