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ambiguity

[am-bi-gyoo-i-tee] / ˌæm bɪˈgyu ɪ ti /


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Initial ambiguity about whether the probe was truly over kept the path uncertain through the weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Another news agency, Tasnim, described it as a "bad and incomplete tweet that created misleading ambiguity about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz".

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Removing ambiguity around how crypto is regulated would make it easier for institutional investors to buy digital assets and for traditional finance firms such as banks to offer their own crypto products.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

Borgli’s film demonstrates that a certain level of ambiguity and discomfort allows for complex conversation.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

On the all-important question of sovereignty, the same artfully contrived ambiguity also obtained: Sovereignty did not reside with the federal government or the individual states; it resided with “the people.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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