ambivalent
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Businesses championed new technologies in a bout of risk-taking with few equivalents in a region dominated by older industries and ambivalent about tech.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
As a child of divorce, were you ambivalent about marriage?
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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
Yet, even at the height of fame, he chooses to remain on the margins of celebrity culture, visibly ambivalent about his own success.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
He had not always been so ambivalent about his home.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing ambivalent
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