indistinct
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Yet from that painful personal source emerges something unfortunately indistinct, as though softly blanketed by the snow that sifts slowly down during this holiday drama.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
When he finally opened his eyes, his language was minimal: a few indistinct words — possibly English, possibly Spanish — and nothing that sounded like a name.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2025
Otherwise, Doug Liman’s 2005 action comedy is a slight distraction – fun, but indistinct.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024
This galaxy, AzTECC71, was first detected as an indistinct blob of dust emission by a camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii that sees in wavelengths between far infrared and microwave.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023
I know he’s sneaking up on the fire, on my parents, who are flickering, shadowy, their faces indistinct.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing indistinct
Holes
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