ambiguous
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But market reaction has been far less ambiguous.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Instead, the justices spent the hearing as they customarily do, engaged in a complex and legalistic discussion about how to analyze ambiguous text and how to weigh historical evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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
And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing ambiguous
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Grade 9, List 1
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