as in impenetrability
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Noun
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The movie’s psychological framework, its system of motivations, is stretched very thin between two extremes: of clarity and opacity, near-obviousness and absolute impenetrability.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 May 2025 -
Played with gruff impenetrability and a thinly veiled sadistic streak by David Shih, this big dog’s name is Mitsuo, but no one uses names in the heya — only ranks.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Duco negates the need for any human intervention by leveraging a hanging robotic system that automatically sketches multi-layered circuity to enable novel large-scale interfaces.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Feb. 2023
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Mazzone hopes that studying the neural circuity for coughing will eventually lead to new therapies.—
Sarah Zhang,
Discover Magazine,
11 Apr. 2012
Noun
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Setting these expectations significantly reduces candidate uncertainty.—
Sherry Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Due to the competitive landscape and consumer uncertainty, Vivid suspended its habit of providing forward earnings guidance to analysts with that call, adding to the bearish sentiment for Vivid that has yet to let up.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
2 June 2025
Noun
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There should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products.—
Hannah Parry
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Help Is Available Not only can managing your tax picture take up a lot of time, but the complexity can sometimes feel overwhelming.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Indirectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indirectness. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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