unclear

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It’s unclear how the White House request was delivered or if it was presented as an order or a recommendation.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

Exactly how the whale ended up on an island off Denmark's East Jutland coast remains unclear.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

It looks as if the British farmers who had been building Stonehenge over the preceding centuries all but disappeared – again, for reasons which remain unclear.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

While U.S. support for U.N. work is a positive, the amounts remain unclear, said Jordie Hannum, senior director of U.S.-U.N. relations at the United Nations Foundation, which advocates for the body.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Boveri had identified the chromosome as the physical residence for genes, but the deeper architecture of genes and chromosomes still remained unclear.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee