ambiguity

"Reforms are not clearly defined in the agreement document. Some ambiguity remains", Abdoulaye Ndiaye, a Senegalese economist at New York University, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

He offered no similar ambiguity about what he believed should happen when a journalist characterized that record differently.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Instead, they expose an important ambiguity in how experiments designed to probe gravity's quantum properties may be interpreted.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Warsh said guidance in normal times “risks creating ambiguity in the name of clarity,” and that quasi-commitments on rates “inhibit our own freedom to make the right calls when it’s time to decide.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The problem is not one of ungrammaticality but of ambiguity, as in the examples we saw in chapter 4.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

A midnight curfew was introduced following an Ashes tour blighted by off-field problems, but ambiguities around the curfew were a factor in the nightclub controversy involving Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

“These ambiguities … are only likely to intensify as the conflict evolves,” Skuld said.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

That includes the need to maintain the ambiguities and the nuance of the film as Tracy wrote it.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

“I have communicated with manufacturers to the extent that any ambiguities or misunderstandings may have existed. I think they’ve been dissipated,” MacKinnon says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker