The closer you look at any particular set of numbers, the fuzzier they become.
The iPhone 4S gave a fuzzier interpretation of the clocktower seen on the PureView version.
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The more the clutter, the fuzzier and more convoluted our perception and our dealings.
But that figure does not include a variety of wider, fuzzier costs.
The second problem facing ticket buyers is a bit fuzzier: Perceived value.
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But it is a precise figure where previous estimates were fuzzier.
Once employees become team leaders, they shift to fuzzier management techniques.
In analysing China's economic forays into Europe, it helps to divide them into three categories (even if some of these distinctions are fuzzier in China than elsewhere).
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For most other predictions, though, things get a lot fuzzier.
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But the compromise sends fuzzier signals than a decisive victory.
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In the end, though, there is another reason, too: it is that attempts to regulate financial companies, though designed to make things clearer, can actually end up making them fuzzier.
Though he never ran a large organization before becoming president, he initially dismissed internal concerns about management and ended up with a factionalized White House and a fuzzier decision-making process than many top aides wanted.
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And to estimate the share of prisoners in certain subgroups, it was necessary in some cases to use surveys conducted no more than once every five years, interpolating numbers in between and making the result fuzzier.
They hiked a whistleblower's cut from 10% to as much as 30% and lowered the threshold for guilt from knowingly ripping off the government to the fuzzier notion of "deliberate ignorance" or "reckless disregard" of regulations.
The origin of early languages is fuzzier.
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Unfortunately, the earth's circumference at the equator is almost 25, 000 miles, so when we try to model the entire earth, and go up into the mesosphere (about 25 to 50 miles above the earth) the picture gets fuzzier.
Rapiscan Systems, which makes the backscatter X-ray scanner, installs one of a series of "privacy algorithms" that can dial up or down the images' resolution. (Of course, the fuzzier the result the harder it is to spot a weapon.) Similarly, millimeter scanner-maker L-3 can blur faces, chests and groins, depending on the customer's preference.
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