vague
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Results could help doctors decide which patients with vague symptoms need further investigations.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
That was true even for those who just added vague ESG language.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
It “has much to do with real estate scions fancying themselves purveyors of a new Renaissance, but the buildings themselves are less inspired by Renaissance principles than vague stabs at worldliness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Presenting himself as a consumer advocate, Fielder bragged, “I graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades” — both vague and technically true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Standing in a 1796 portrait of the Washington family is a house servant in uniform, a black man in profile, his features vague and shadowy.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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But such a war would be putty in the hands of international judges if they were to adopt a vaguer standard that allows genocidal intent to be inferred “holistically” from “facts and circumstances.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By the time April 2020 rolled around, Gyllenhaal had moved into vaguer terminology.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Emilie Kouatchou’s Holly moves the character away from the obvious Christine McVie reference, but her role has become vaguer and less central.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
The Dutch language edition, Eindstrijd, has a very plain reference to a senior royal and there have been claims of another much vaguer reference to a second name.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
And the vaguer you told things, the better.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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In its recent statement to customers, Liberty made only the vaguest of promises.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
In Mr Gallant's "four corners" plan, the Palestinian component is perhaps the vaguest.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
Even now, far from home, he’s too scared to be identified beyond his last name and with only the vaguest military details.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
Even her husband will know, at most, just the vaguest setting of her latest book, a veil of secrecy that ensures he’ll have fresh eyes when he comes to the project as her first reader.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
I had only the vaguest of ideas as to what any of the ma- :hines might have done.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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