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Vague in sentence

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I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
It isn't this kind of vague promise that it's going to work no matter what, but you get the statistics for how effective it is.
They were moving away from supernatural explanations, and they were rejecting things like a supernatural concept of power, where it transmitted because of a very vague concept of birthright.
Aside from platitudes such as the vague and agentless "deindustrialization," Detroit's exodus can be summed up with two structures: freeways and walls.
The third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague, but I think interesting and important, and that is, if you find a signal coming from a more advanced society, because they will be, that will tell you something about our own possibilities, that we're not inevitably doomed to self-destruction.
This is some of the most exciting stuff in development and democracy, where citizens on the edge of a network are helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague stuff up at the top really delivers for people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid.
What has changed is how people respond to vague questions.
If you ask people vague questions, like, "Do you think there should be more government or less government?"
I feel like my job to make this happen is to help foster the things that seem to lead to compromise, to not talk about this in those vague and scary terms that do polarize us, but to just talk about it like what it is, not an existential crisis, not some battle between two fundamentally different religious views, but a math problem, a really solvable math problem, one where we're not all going to get what we want and one where, you know, there's going to be a little pain to spread around.
They can have a precise idea of where they are, and sort of a vague idea of where the other cars are.
And that led Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say, "All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that each of them could define their own terms."
And happiness, of course, is such a vague word, so let's say well-being.
Augustus exiled plenty of people on vague charges, including Ovid, one of Rome’s greatest poets.
Sometimes it's best to be deliberately fuzzy and vague.
What scares me most about the loud arguments and misinformation about plant genetics is that the poorest people who most need the technology may be denied access because of the vague fears and prejudices of those who have enough to eat.
So we can also eliminate the ones that are very vague or very stylized.
So if you guys catch yourselves using these vague words, like "probably" or "sometimes," try, instead, using numbers, because when we speak in numbers, we know what lands in the other person's brain.
When used in every day life, the word symmetry represents vague notions of beauty, harmony and balance.
The vast majority of people who’ve lost a limb can still feel it— not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail.
Ten days later, I'm on call at San Francisco General Hospital when I receive a barrage of vague text messages expressing condolences.
TS: I have vague memories of the next day: the after effects of drinking, a certain hollowness that I tried to stifle.
Also convenient is the fact that most of today's big civility talkers tend to be quite vague and fuzzy when it comes to what they think civility actually entails.
Can we do this again from the top, except use some people with a vague hint of talent, instead of just six utter boobs like we brought in last time, real estate hacks of the kind who usually plan our cities.
It's a bit vague."
If Ethic says “pick the lock” or “try every combination” that would be too vague, but “spin the dial 5 positions forward” would work.
That it's not just that we have to sort of imagine there being a different, vague possibility out there, but we need to start acting a little bit more on that possibility.
You can also just sort of give vague input and then try and have Wolfram Alpha figure out what you're talking about.
There was any vague, but an oppressive sensation of discontent with itself and caustic irritation.
Why? Days of Heaven's plot is simple, but extremely vague.
Absolutely typical of the genre - poorly filmed and acted, no semblance of a script beyond the worst kind of double-entendre, and very vague hints of 'naughtiness'.
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