vague
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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
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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
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
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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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