murky

This is the other dilemma: Jackson’s status is forever murky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Orbiting the star is a brown dwarf, an object that occupies the murky boundary between planets and stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The Moneyist tries to find clarity in a murky situation that has raised some red flags.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The murky, magnificent Eel River was once a highway for the Wailaki people, who navigated by canoe and hauled goods between villages in cone-shaped baskets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

She spots flashes of The Taker in the dim grottos and murky hollows where the bears and the cougars might be.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Ekerdt estimates most homes hold tens of thousands of things, each with its own meaning, and once you add a spouse’s things into the mix, sovereignty over what stays and what goes gets even murkier.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

She recorded the new album with the same team — the hit-making writer-producers Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin — but here they go for a murkier, more percussive sound to match Grande’s dark mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Yet once companies have captured the low-hanging fruit, the road forward may get murkier.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“The Fine Art of Lying,” written with the panache of a suspenseful novel of manners, probes the machinations of the art market and a few of the murkier areas of financial management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

But it’s a joke with depth, pointing to who Vahid really is, and who he isn’t, at just the time when that seems murkiest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Despite legislation coming into effect almost a decade ago, the issue of 'anchoring' continues to be one of the murkiest in the game.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

HKU1 has the murkiest evolutionary history, but its genetic sequence clusters close to the murine hepatitis virus, suggesting it has a rodent origin.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024

The murkiest part of Wagner’s Sudan drive is in Darfur, a region riven by conflict and rich in uranium.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2022

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken