ambiguity
Example Sentences
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Borgli’s film demonstrates that a certain level of ambiguity and discomfort allows for complex conversation.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
Strategic ambiguity in Antarctica once served American interests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The new policy erases all ambiguity around the question of whether bot-made text can exist on Wikipedia’s public pages to begin with.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
This ambiguity is, at least partly, by design.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
In the simpler case of lexical ambiguity, an individual word has two meanings, as in the headlines Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted and New Vaccine May Contain Rabies.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing ambiguity
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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Romeo and Juliet
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