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Recent Examples of vagueness
City Attorney Ryan Denk shared concerns about the vagueness of the consequences for violating the ordinance and said the ordinance had to be enforced evenly.
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Lynne Hermansen, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
There was no vagueness, even to try to create leverage for a new contract amid a good season.
—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
Lynne Hermansen, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
There was no vagueness, even to try to create leverage for a new contract amid a good season.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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The text is not without ambiguity.—
Cass Sunstein,
Big Think,
5 Mar. 2026
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The magic act of Okri’s writing is his ability to maintain ambiguity while always keeping his language limpid and direct.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The murkiness of Acquisition Logistics’ involvement in El Paso is hardly an exception among many of the companies profiting from the border-security gold rush.—
Garrett M. Graff,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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There is a bit of murkiness on salaries for coaches of private schools like TCU, as USA Today’s amounts for private schools were based on schools’ most recently available financial records, which cover the 2023 calendar year.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Regardless of whether Arthur Agee and William Gates become the next Jordan — or even the next Isiah Thomas — their lives wind up far more interesting than potential glory, with unexpected developments achieving a profundity few scripts ever could have.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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There is probably an existential shock, and the profundity of that shock is probably not yet understood.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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