nebulous
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"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
At Davos, Trump also signed the charter of his inaugural “Board of Peace,” a nebulous body which may be intended as a rival to the United Nations.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026
The museum’s nebulous, careful positioning in many ways mirrors the politics that may have buried Kelly’s and Johnson’s involvement six decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
All of that will be hard to do if they’re also shoveling billions of pounds into a nebulous “energy transition.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything so nebulous could be said to happen.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing nebulous
To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Great Gatsby
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1984
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