murkiness

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Only time and space prevented us from venturing further into this systemic murkiness, and in the week since the post, there have been numerous further disturbing pieces of news that, under normal circumstances, would be headline-grabbing.

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  1. The state of being murky.

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  1. the quality of being cloudy
  2. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

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  • That murkiness, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, is the source of the continuing credit crunch gripping New York, London and other financial capitals, and a basic fact of life for much of the developing world. —  Living in Peru : News
  • Thanks to the prevailing murkiness, Catholic doctrine is often identified in the media with —  Evolution News & Views
  • Much of the murkiness is gone and black levels are very good.
  • Only time and space prevented us from venturing further into this systemic murkiness, and in the week since the post, there have been numerous further disturbing pieces of news that, under normal circumstances, would be headline-grabbing. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Schrader's intellectual complexity sometimes leads to murkiness, but it's also yielded at least one superb film. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
 

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