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as in vague
not expressed in precise terms
their suggestion for correcting the problem is a bit unclear
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as in faint
not seen or understood clearly
obtained at best an unclear glimpse of the rarely seen bird from across the road
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Recent Examples of unclear
Whether that commitment stands is unclear.
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Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
However the exact release plan is unclear.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Whether xAI has deliberately allowed Grok to cook up the sort of pornography that rival chatbots won’t remains unclear.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
The status of that review is unclear.
—Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
However the exact release plan is unclear.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Whether xAI has deliberately allowed Grok to cook up the sort of pornography that rival chatbots won’t remains unclear.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
The status of that review is unclear.
—Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclear
Adjective
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And not just vague signs, actual amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the same hallmarks seen in human patients.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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A lot of people bounce through the system because these symptoms are so vague.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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From this distance, Swift detected the faint ultraviolet glow of hydroxyl (OH), the product of water molecules broken apart by sunlight, the study reports.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
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While the unfinished project remains ambiguous, the viewer catches glimpses of what the plot might have been about, where Jiang's character has grown from a wandering youth to a wealthy entrepreneur.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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The Mifsuds have invited the community to become a part of the menu curation process, by welcoming name suggestions for Six Spoke’s latest brews, like the Vernor Hazeway, a hazy IPA.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The series has a hazy, dreamlike quality in which narrative logic bends but emotional coherence holds.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Unclear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unclear. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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