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Recent Examples of vagueness
The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Dystopia arrives with an alarming lack of specifics in Anniversary, a quiet thriller whose vagueness is precisely the terrifying point.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 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
Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Dystopia arrives with an alarming lack of specifics in Anniversary, a quiet thriller whose vagueness is precisely the terrifying point.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
The vagueness and disorientation are plausibly by design, meant to evoke the fracturing of Lisa’s sanity, perhaps.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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As usual, Coon thrives in ambiguity, layering a seemingly straightforward woman with depth.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Participants also took a personality assessment called the High Potential Trait Indicator (HTPI), which measures six traits including competitiveness and tolerance of ambiguity.—
Joe Wilkins Published Jan 8,
Futurism,
8 Jan. 2026
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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But the film's profundity lies in its understanding that the thief, like so much of postwar Italy’s working class, is in the same boat as Antonio.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Dec. 2025
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Then again, this mood piece of monumental profundity and grace does the exact same thing for its viewers.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
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“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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