vague
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She believes ovarian cancer can be hard to diagnose because the symptoms can be "vague".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
When students arrive in college, they encounter a vague sense of freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Officials were vague about George W. Bush’s whereabouts immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, and Bill Clinton took an unmarked plane from India to Pakistan in 2000.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The cargo lists are vague so we don’t even know what dinosaurs were on board.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
He had vague notions of struggling to learn his letters while he worked in the coal mine, every day a battle to survive the dangerous work.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Wednesday’s meeting suggests that by dialing back how much the Fed says, Warsh might pull more officials into alignment—if only around a vaguer message.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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
But this is a slightly vaguer way of phrasing it that pollsters tend to be more sceptical about.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
And the vaguer you told things, the better.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
For months, his staff offered only the vaguest references to a medical issue, stonewalling reporters and leaving the voters of New Jersey’s seventh congressional district completely unrepresented.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
In its recent statement to customers, Liberty made only the vaguest of promises.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
That is mostly because I have only the vaguest idea of where I’ll be in a year.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
In Mr Gallant's "four corners" plan, the Palestinian component is perhaps the vaguest.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
My parents have floated a few mental-illness buzzwords, but only in the vaguest way.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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