ambiguous

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Publicly, no Iranian official has confirmed any negotiations, but the language used is ambiguous.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

“If a statute is ambiguous, then it’s the court that makes the call about what the statute means, not the agency,” Pettit explained.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

The characters are not in themselves complicated or ambiguous; it’s as psychologically simple as “Star Wars” was, to start — and you know how that worked out.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, several conflicts began with confidence in early military success but lacked clear answers to those questions, leaving Americans to grapple with costly and ambiguous outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

Offsetting that virtue, Linear B was quite ambiguous.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond