ambivalent
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As a child of divorce, were you ambivalent about marriage?
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Some manufacturers definitely want turbos to stay, others are more ambivalent.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Partly as a result of the moral quandaries, Mr. Solomon finishes his book far more ambivalent about colonizing Mars than he was at the outset.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
And yet, Bamberger was ambivalent about that success.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Delbriick’s speedy approval pleased me, for he had ambivalent feelings about the ultimate value to biology of Pauling-like structural studies.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing ambivalent
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Grade 11, List 1
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