nebulous
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“But songwriting is so much more nebulous, so much harder to sue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“These nebulous and overtly conjectural allegations do not come close to knitting Ganieva, Harris, and Rubenstein together in any solid or coherent way in concerted acts towards a common end,” the judge wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
It’s just syrup and nebulous amounts of whatever base.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Once again, the nebulous Boko Haram terrorist group carried out a cowardly attack last night on our military base at Barka Tolorom," Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said on Tuesday in a Facebook post.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Put another way, a Mercerite was free to locate the nebulous presence of The Killers wherever he saw fit.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing nebulous
To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Great Gatsby
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1984
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