ambivalence
Example Sentences
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While shoppers had greeted him in his old delivery job with anticipation, now as a return worker they hand over packages with a measure of ambivalence and perhaps, relief.
But Castro succeeds by zeroing in on the moments away from the spotlight where Quintanilla’s playful personality and vulnerable ambivalence paint her in a new, more humane light.
From Los Angeles Times
While Wall Street greets AI with open arms, ordinary Americans respond with ambivalence, anxiety, even dread.
As I assume many other young Latino voters do, I approached my first time at the ballot box with ambivalence.
From Los Angeles Times
Deutch captures not only Seberg’s own vibrant ambivalence but her cadence with its inexplicably magical mix of musical, hesitant and precise — the voice of a child’s talking doll.
From Los Angeles Times
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