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Recent Examples of vagueness
There was no vagueness, even to try to create leverage for a new contract amid a good season.
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Chris Vannini, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
The nascent anti-smartphones movement in America is decidedly nonpartisan, for the most part, and this contributes to its potential and also to the vagueness of its outlines.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, its ostensibly heartwarming elements are undone by their vagueness.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
One of the criticisms leveraged against the WTO protests is the vagueness of their message, ostensibly embodied by the loose, ideologically diverse coalition of the anti-globalist movement.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025
The petitioners also question whether the policy, in its vagueness, would survive a Supreme Court challenge.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 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
Chris Vannini, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
The nascent anti-smartphones movement in America is decidedly nonpartisan, for the most part, and this contributes to its potential and also to the vagueness of its outlines.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, its ostensibly heartwarming elements are undone by their vagueness.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
One of the criticisms leveraged against the WTO protests is the vagueness of their message, ostensibly embodied by the loose, ideologically diverse coalition of the anti-globalist movement.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Epstein’s pidgin writing style, paired with his name-dropping and vagueness, makes emails like this excellent fodder for both speculation and genuine concern.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025
The petitioners also question whether the policy, in its vagueness, would survive a Supreme Court challenge.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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Brex runs on founder energy, speed, and a tolerance for ambiguity.—
Ron Shevlin,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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This ambiguity leaves room for problematic practices such as the principals paying all members of one generation the same amount regardless of their duties, Gilbert said.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Despite the murkiness of the water, Chris jumped in to swim.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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That’s the murkiness that makes any grand statement about the previous 17 games difficult.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Filmed in Lambert’s own Ohio hometown, the film revels in the seeming minutiae of everyday life, but finds pleasure and profundity in such spaces.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2026
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Even as his Reddit-haunting admirers still parse his lyrics for hidden meanings, his spirit surely looks down on them with wry amusement at his fans’ unending search for profundity.—
Alexander Larman,
Time,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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