INDETERMINATELY Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

indeterminately

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as in vaguely

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Ike Barinholtz, of The Studio, practically brings the house down as a circa-2015 Elon Musk, a guy who seems to shamble through life looking only vaguely, comically zonked, not dangerously so.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
His delightful turn as the vaguely insufferable, do-gooding mayor in Eddington was there primarily to prod weirdo sheriff Joaquin Phoenix further into homicidal neurosis.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

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For the most part, big superhero movies from DC and Marvel tend to be a hodgepodge of adaptation, with filmmakers borrowing freely and nebulously from decades of winding comic-book continuity.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 June 2026
The doctrine of the containment of communism thus gave birth to a more concretely geopolitical—as opposed to nebulously civilizational—West, soon embodied in new institutions such as NATO, an integrating Europe, and the OECD.

— Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025

Definition of nebulously

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Unlike prior records this year, this latest run has been narrowly lead by a few stocks tied to the AI hype and deemed unfettered by adverse macroeconomic headwinds.

— Deena Zaidi,Sean Conlon, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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