ambiguity
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Some analysts are starting to conclude that policy ambiguity is the policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Critic Siddhant Adlakha was struck by the ambiguity the film captures.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I wondered if ambiguity had been outlawed along with the funeral rites of Antíkona’s warrior brother Polynices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"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
Pushing the not next to the phrase it negates eliminates the scope ambiguity.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
Prediction markets use clarifications to address ambiguities in how contracts will be settled, often when real-world events don’t fit neatly into the yes-or-no questions that users are wagering on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Supporters of the amendment argue that it will clear up ambiguities in the current law.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
“These ambiguities … are only likely to intensify as the conflict evolves,” Skuld said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, incomplete, can be listened to as a part of music, like an isolated section of an orchestra.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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