opacity
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Injuries stink, and so did the opacity with which the Clippers shared news of their star’s health status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government and the Catholic Church in Spain signed an agreement in March to compensate victims, after years of reticence and opacity from the Church hierarchy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
That opacity is the central complaint in a staff memo circulated by Senate Banking Committee Democrats and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The experience of the nonagency mortgage-backed securities market before the 2008 financial crisis shows how opacity can enable misrepresentations of asset quality, erode investor confidence and contribute to market unraveling.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
He was instantly struck by the opacity of an investment bank’s books.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
He said the condition that caused the opacities could have killed him if his wife hadn’t sent him for a checkup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
When Sovannarie was 3 months old, her parents noticed something unusual about their daughter: white opacities in both pupils.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
The panels come in different opacities — some are clear, while others block more UV light for sun protection.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
She ordered a scan of my lungs to see if ground-glass opacities, or light-colored patches, appeared, a sign that Covid had affected my lungs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
Who knows whether these opacities will not become transparent?
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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