murky waters

plural noun

: confusing details
He began studying the murky waters of copyright law.

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But the company has been in murky waters with some of its customers for years. Solcyré Burga, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025 But a budget resolution passed by the House of Representatives last week threatens the federal funding of the program and Republicans across the country are seeking to make amendments to what can be bought using food benefits, leaving the future of the national anti-poverty program in murky waters. Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025 That, coupled with Nvidia's comparable cards (read: the GeForce RTX 5070) close on the horizon and prices in flux as AMD's new cards hit the market, will make for murky waters for customers buying their next GPU. Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 28 Feb. 2025 Helicopters and boats with powerful searchlights scanned the murky waters throughout the night, while emergency vehicles lit up the banks of the Potomac in a long line of blinking red lights. Brooke Conrad, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for murky waters

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