sketchy
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However, analysts have noted that the details have remained sketchy, including whether there will be a fee to access the waterway.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“You have this guy with this sketchy legal past and the cherry on top is…he’s never been a developer of a data center,” said Scurries, 34, a vocal opponent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Details of Tuesday's arrest remain sketchy, but police confirmed operatives from its Force Intelligence Department and Intelligence Response Team were involved.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
One way to make this less of a sketchy move is to check in first.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Far from satisfying him, the sketchy meal only whetted his appetite; moreover, the onion had made his lip smart and burn.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Meanwhile, El Niño has helped wash away sand from Newport Beach, making most dangerous surf spot—the Wedge—even sketchier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
With help from Morricone, whose interviews anchor the documentary, Tornatore ably fills in the composer’s family history, though the details become sketchier as the musician’s fame steadily grows.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
When my parents divorced, things became much sketchier for my mom, and I did live with her for the first part.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2024
He has stayed here even as this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard became sketchier, even as the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to lay off all his employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Naturally, Europe and its many loops were well-defined, but farther afield things got sketchier.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
He messaged Lutz about his experiences: “It was definitely the sketchiest thing I have ever had to do.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Huge sums of money are now available for the sketchiest of projects, from "blue hydrogen" to the sea-bed mining of rare-earth minerals.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021
“The majority gives only the sketchiest of reasons for reversing Teague’s watershed exception,” Kagan wrote.
From Slate ● May 17, 2021
Over two recording sessions for Columbia Records in early 1959, Davis would hand out the sketchiest of outlines for the music and leave the rest to extemporization.
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2020
He spoke nothing but the truth, for he had but the sketchiest acquaintance with the composition of any kind of machinery.
From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
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