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"sense": "covered with fuzz or loose fibres",
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"word": "szőrmók"
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"_dis1": "70 9 10 11",
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"sense": "covered with fuzz or loose fibres",
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"text": "My recollection of that event is fuzzy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85:",
"text": "In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 March 11, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.",
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"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"roman": "nejasen",
"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "неясен"
},
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"word": "borrós"
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "uklar"
},
{
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "tåget"
},
{
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "vag"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "epäselvä"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"word": "sekava"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "flou"
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{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "confus"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "vage"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "ungenau"
},
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"roman": "asafís",
"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ασαφής"
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{
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"roman": "thampós",
"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "θαμπός"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "θολός"
},
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"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "homályos"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "pontatlan"
},
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"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "zavaros"
},
{
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"word": "neamhbheacht"
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"word": "не́јасен"
},
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nieścisły"
},
{
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "vago"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "impreciso"
},
{
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "нечёткий"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "impreciso"
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"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "desvaído"
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "luddig"
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"_dis1": "4 83 11 2",
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"sense": "vague or imprecise",
"word": "dimmig"
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"text": "I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.",
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"word": "неясен"
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"word": "размазан"
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"word": "borrós"
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"word": "sløret"
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"word": "uklar"
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"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "udvisket"
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"word": "epäselvä"
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"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "sumea"
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"word": "flou"
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"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
"word": "verschwommen"
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"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "unscharf"
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"word": "diffus"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
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],
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{
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"word": "elmosódott"
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{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "homályos"
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"word": "не́јасен"
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"word": "pōrehurehu"
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{
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"word": "pūrehurehu"
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"word": "uklar"
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{
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"word": "uklar"
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{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "uklår"
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"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rozmyty"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
"word": "desfocado"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nerezkij",
"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
"word": "нерезкий"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not clear; unfocused",
"word": "desenfocado"
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{
"_dis1": "4 6 87 2",
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"word": "borroso"
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