ambiguity

Example Sentences

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He is not easily categorized as a political actor, and that ambiguity is precisely what makes him so difficult to pin down — and so easy to amplify.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The new policy erases all ambiguity around the question of whether bot-made text can exist on Wikipedia’s public pages to begin with.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

This ambiguity is, at least partly, by design.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Israel has maintained a policy of ambiguity about its nuclear programme, and the plant officially focuses on research.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

In syntactic ambiguity, there may be no single word that is ambiguous, but the words can be interconnected into more than one tree.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker