murky
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U.S. officials said the Oman picture was murky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But law scholars are split on the issue that opens the door to a murky legal maze pitting the reach of a presidential pardon against the scope of the Fifth Amendment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
"The outlook for working with Wildberries is very murky," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I know it’s still murky, but what is the current state of the acquisition of Infowars?
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
I thought of my dorm room—of the murky walls and frigid tiles, but also of the sunflowers Drew had sent, and of the textile wall hanging a friend from Zimbabwe had brought from his village.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Yet once companies have captured the low-hanging fruit, the road forward may get murkier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Things can get even murkier when SPV layering is involved.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
If you’re looking at a flight later than this summer, the picture is murkier, but it probably makes sense to hold off for a few weeks if the ticket price is really high.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Now, with LIV’s Saudi backers on the brink of turning off the spigot for a business that has hemorrhaged cash, the future is even murkier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Or when he pours the juice into three glasses that are murkier than they should be.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
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
All of these factors cast this decision to live in the murkiest light.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2017
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
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