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vague

[veyg] / veɪg /


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Over the next few years, I began to form vague ideas about the other members of our extended family.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

He expects any criticism of US policies to be "vague and indirect", reflecting the sharply divergent interests within the expanded group.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The formidable Ms. Farrell has described its intense 10 minutes of “crazy sounds, no counts, very vague choreography, crazy costume” as “probably the most difficult thing I had ever done.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Staci Heaton, senior policy advocate for the organization, said they’re concerned that the new management goals are so vague that they would expose forest projects — including wildfire research — to costly lawsuits.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Other candidates have been vaguer on their answers.

From Seattle Times Nov. 8, 2023

The women, though vaguer, are slightly more intriguing.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2023

But it might be referring to something much vaguer or a holding position that was temporarily useful as a way of parking something difficult.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2023

And the vaguer you told things, the better.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Instead, Macras and her 10 performers — drawn from her own company, Dorky Park, plus some guest dancers — serve up a disjointed revue that is about theater itself, in the vaguest of senses.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2023

He tells her, in one of the film's vaguest, most risible lines, "You've convinced me . . . that you are very convincing."

From Salon Apr. 8, 2022

Well, that launched a slew of questions from Mr. Morrison that I could answer only in the vaguest way.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn




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