ambivalent
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As a child of divorce, were you ambivalent about marriage?
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
North Carolina resident Shelley Hughes was more ambivalent.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Partly as a result of the moral quandaries, Mr. Solomon finishes his book far more ambivalent about colonizing Mars than he was at the outset.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
While ChatGPT sometimes shuts down this line of questioning, Claude is more ambivalent in its response.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
These were to be our last days together, at least in the carefree spirit that had marked our escape from the Middle West and the American culture it was so easy to be ambivalent about.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing ambivalent
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Grade 11, List 1
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