opacity
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Such opacity makes the ships difficult to police.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Meeks knows when and where to give his lead character distance, respecting that opacity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But if it’s part of a larger pattern of opacity, instability and conflicting messaging, something larger might be coming down the pike.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government and the Catholic Church in Spain signed an agreement in March to compensate victims, after years of reticence and opacity from the Church hierarchy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
But in successive turns you grow an opacity, a pearl-like glow whose surface can repel all manner of heat and light.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
When Sovannarie was 3 months old, her parents noticed something unusual about their daughter: white opacities in both pupils.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
I think that’s what’s super fun about it: You can create so much depth in a nail from different opacities of color, where you can’t get that with a flat paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
The panels come in different opacities — some are clear, while others block more UV light for sun protection.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
“Don’t Believe a Word,” a new book by the Guardian writer and editor David Shariatmadari, delves into the riddles of language: the opacities, ambushes, dead ends, sudden ecstasies.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
How far more subtle the appeal of these grey and dun-coloured opacities, these tent-cloths of fog pressed out into uncouth, dumbly pathetic shapes by the struggle for existence that seethes below it always—always!
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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