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vague

[vayg] / veɪg /


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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

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

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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