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Those metrics provide a very clear way to benchmark performance—something that doesn’t exist for many real-world problems, where the most effective move may be far more ambiguous and the entire concept of “winning” may not apply.

From Fortune

The question was ambiguous as stated, so I gave credit for both answers.

Such questions routinely prompt ambiguous and gendered responses.

From Fortune

Finally, as some readers observed, the original puzzle was slightly ambiguous as written.

In those ambiguous cases, mathematicians have additional tools at their disposal.

But what is it like to be the embodiment of that, as an ethnically ambiguous individual?

We can only speculate as to the intentions behind these ambiguous words.

Even the Biblical roots of gender are more ambiguous than people think.

The writer has followed a rule but compromised clarity; whether the vote or the approval was immediate is ambiguous.

“The subject area in question is subjective and ambiguous,” he wrote.

Some few of them however (perhaps from my want of Judgment) seem so ambiguous, as to want a little Explanation.

In some cases proper evidence may be used to identify things where the description in the will is ambiguous.

It was a claiming touch, and there was something in the unfolded sweetness of her face that was not ambiguous.

I am not without resources; but his civil ambiguous silence, by feeding my hopes, has encreased my difficulties.

To think of a chap writing such a veiled, ambiguous, absolutely botched sentence, and cooking up such a mess!

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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ambiguous, such as: cryptic, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, inconclusive, and obscure.

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

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