Example Sentences

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The press corps inside 26 Fed is a strange mix of regular New York stringers—the kinds you see at all protests and goings-on in the city—foreign press, and nebulously employed “independents.”

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2025

Everyone else in this adventure seems to be there for nebulously greedy reasons that are never fully explained.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Others expressed confusion about the inconsistency of the ban, noting that many artists accused of "hateful conduct" — which the platform had only nebulously defined — weren't subject to the playlist-ban policy.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2021

It’s nebulously humiliating, like being naked in public and having as your best and only tactic the plan of diverting people’s attention somewhere else.

From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2016

I watch the massive water bubbles churn nebulously as Autumn, Ama, and Woo struggle.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer