Gary Weiss

Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

American Journalist

Yemi Osinbajo

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

Nigerian Politician

Alexander Gilkes

There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between buyers and sellers.

British Businessman

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

American Businessman

Think of something dense like a wall that light can't go through, implying solidness or thickness.

Light Blockage

Opacity can describe materials like frosted glass which diffuses light, making it unclear.

Lack of Clarity

Different materials can have varying levels of opacity, impacting how we perceive them.

Perception Variation

When text or speech is opaque, it's often because ideas are complex or poorly expressed.

Confusing Text

Academic or legal documents often have an inherent opacity in language use.

Academic Writing

Contrast 'opacity' with 'transparency' to highlight ambiguity versus clarity in communication.

Clear vs. Opaque

In digital design, changing opacity affects how solid or see-through a virtual object is.

Digital Graphics

Artists use opacity to manipulate how much underlying layers or colors show through.

Semantics in Art

User interfaces often utilize opacity to focus attention or show disabled features.

Opacity in Interfaces

 It's about everything. These issues of accountability and agency, of opacity and complexity, of the violence and exploitation that inherently results from the concentration of power in a few hands -- these are much, much larger issues.

The nightmare videos of...

 or what we'd now call lead poisoning. Artists who worked with lead complained of palseys, melancholy, coughing, enlarged retinas, and even blindness. But lead white's density, opacity, and warm tone