ambivalence
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The ambivalence among advisers’ views may help explain why they do not appear to have much impact on their clients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
If a single power source could be said to have fueled the creative work of Alice Munro, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature, it would be her ambivalence about her mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To cope with her ambivalence, she penned a hazy, lovelorn track named “Abandoname.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Athletes have long been able to navigate this ambivalence.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
That ambivalence was most clearly embodied by the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing ambivalence
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