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Six example sentences with opaque, each labelled with its topic.
The glaze goes on opaque, so the sketch underneath vanishes and the painter has to trust her measurements.
Art
The fund's fee structure is opaque, running nine pages, and even the adviser could not say what a client pays yearly.
Finance
His later notebooks are opaque even to specialists, full of private abbreviations and diagrams he never explained to anyone.
Philosophy
Most metals are opaque because their loose electrons absorb visible light before it can travel a single micron.
Science
The architect used opaque glass on the street side, so the hall glows at night without showing a single face.
Architecture
The ranking algorithm is opaque even to its makers, who can list its inputs but not explain any single result.
Technology
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