ambivalent
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Businesses championed new technologies in a bout of risk-taking with few equivalents in a region dominated by older industries and ambivalent about tech.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The other students might not be as truculent as Elham, but they are just as ambivalent about the necessity of learning English.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Yet, even at the height of fame, he chooses to remain on the margins of celebrity culture, visibly ambivalent about his own success.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
His debut show of summer menswear in June last year won widespread praise, but his women's collection in October elicited a more ambivalent reception.
From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026
Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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