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The government ambiguously “welcomed” the plan, while keeping the details and the army’s monthly progress reports secret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

Children who rejected or responded ambiguously to their mother's cognitive reappraisal advice actually reported more adaptive coping in middle school than those who accepted it.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Rather, counsel objected to ambiguously worded requests for information.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

The show’s emotional weather turns as the background hue changes from one ambiguously cheerful pastel to another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

It has, to be sure, linkages of various kinds, arrangements with outside universities for certain graduate programs, and it adheres delicately, somewhat ambiguously, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute just up the street.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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