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In another, she explains that the profession does not tend to attract people who have “patience for ambiguity.”

Such uncertainty generates stress, Boss said, and “coping with stress, coping with ambiguity, is especially hard.”

For example, decades-old state laws have left some ambiguity about whether the council can on its own roll back a police commissioner’s discipline authority.

It’s this moral ambiguity that modernizes the historical narrative, as scripted by Sarah Williams, who previously adapted Levy’s Small Island for the BBC.

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This ambiguity stands in contrast to recent news that suggests Flint’s story is headed for resolution.

The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown.

Hollande is ‘the king of doublespeak, ambiguity, and perpetual lies’

It was never a huge hit, but its stories resonated with an American public tenuously relearning moral ambiguity.

But the ambiguity of  “appropriate disciplinary action” is what is so frightening about the smoking ban.

No one wants to go through life in a state of moral and existential ambiguity.

If, however, we know that Garfield was born in 1831, the ambiguity would be removed.

And if a policy is susceptible of two constructions, the ambiguity is to be resolved in favor of the insured.

Ambiguity abounds everywhere and confounds everything; we are obliged at every word to exclaim, What do you mean?

Thus, all that has been said of the pretended adoration exacted by Alexander is founded on ambiguity.

The following are instances of great practical importance, in which arguments are habitually founded on a verbal ambiguity.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ambiguity, such as: doubt, uncertainty, vagueness, anagram, doubtfulness, and dubiety.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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