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Recent Examples of vagueness
The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
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Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The book is padded full of the thin, present-tense prose beloved of young writers, who mistake its vagueness for urgency.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Capo said that vagueness is exactly what makes the TEA’s warning so concerning.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
Your tolerance level for flakiness or vagueness can be flagged pretty quickly.
—Lucy Thorpe, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025
Our mission to bolster the neighborhoods on the West, East and Midtown areas of our city persists even in the veil of vagueness that now surrounds the prison’s future.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
That vagueness cuts against a criminal prosecution.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
A certain amount of vagueness is going to arise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
The book is padded full of the thin, present-tense prose beloved of young writers, who mistake its vagueness for urgency.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Capo said that vagueness is exactly what makes the TEA’s warning so concerning.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
Your tolerance level for flakiness or vagueness can be flagged pretty quickly.
—Lucy Thorpe, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025
Our mission to bolster the neighborhoods on the West, East and Midtown areas of our city persists even in the veil of vagueness that now surrounds the prison’s future.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
That vagueness cuts against a criminal prosecution.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
A certain amount of vagueness is going to arise.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Eliza Varadi, a pediatrician in South Carolina, told me that the murkiness around insurance coverage, coupled with lower demand, has prompted her practice to start ordering COVID vaccines just one box at a time—each a batch of 10 doses—to minimize the potential for loss.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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The vessel was operating in international waters but that added to the murkiness of the legal justification.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite the political specificity of the family history unearthed here, the script presumes a level of profundity that’s just not there in the movie’s ponderous silences and woozy montages.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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Lockwood says she’s often asked about her ability to toggle literary voice on a dime, ricocheting, like an elementary school PhD candidate, between potty humor and profundity.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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