opaque
Example Sentences
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Private-credit providers extend financing to companies in relatively opaque transactions, and the practice has boomed over the past few years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Although he hasn’t held any official post for five years, Raúl Castro is the patriarch of Cuba’s opaque power structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
"The financial costs of industrial action in the NHS are fairly opaque," said Sally Gainsbury of the Nuffield Trust.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
At least some vessels, they added, faced "a slow, opaque verification process and, in many cases, multimillion dollar toll demands".
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Where just a moment ago there had been nothing, now suddenly there was the Talent the Owner had plucked from the man in the gray suit, clean and condensed and opaque, like an ice cube.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
Vocabulary lists containing opaque
Ender's Game
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The Things They Carried
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