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If you don’t follow New York sports, a Jets or Giants reference there would have left some ambiguity, but a Yankees one means that Musk will get his ransom.

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“They deal in quiet emotion, pain, moral ambiguity and slow-burn tension, and that doesn’t always sit easily with people.”

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The policy change would "provide clearer direction for officers, reduce ambiguity and enable them to focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations," the spokesperson added.

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The so-called Rashomon Effect has been used in cinema and television to enhance a mood of ambiguity, with a character’s recollection of events qualified as subjective, and not objective truth.

"For a market addicted to ambiguity, that's the perfect cocktail -- one part anxiety, one part relief, stirred, not shaken."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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