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Recent Examples of vagueness
But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
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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
The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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
The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagueness
Noun
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The brain is also far more adept at handling things like ambiguity, subtlety, and nuance.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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What qualifies is highly subjective, but that ambiguity has overwhelmingly benefited federal officers, according to the two legal scholars.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Despite the murkiness of sneckdowns, sanitation workers often end up taking care of them.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
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There’s some murkiness about where the recipe originated; both baking brands White Lily and Martha White claim to have pioneered the beloved bread.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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With Infinite Jest the concept of the cover is not to suggest any specific theme or symbol, but rather the scope and profundity of the book itself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Vagueness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagueness. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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