How to Use ambiguous in a Sentence
ambiguous
adjective
- We were confused by the ambiguous wording of the message.
- He looked at her with an ambiguous smile.
- Due to the ambiguous nature of the question, it was difficult to choose the right answer.
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The ambiguous ending to last week’s episode was indeed something to be concerned about, and not just the artful homage to the drowned waiter.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
14 Dec. 2021
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However, the guidance acknowledges that a negative test result from an at-home test late in an illness is ambiguous.
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Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2022
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However, the status of your money and other physical resources might be less ambiguous.
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Tarot Astrologers,
chicagotribune.com,
7 Jan. 2022
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And once Rahim reckons with that truth, the movie’s title becomes less ambiguous and more reflective of what everyday heroism means.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
7 Jan. 2022
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When symptoms are ambiguous, the answer usually comes from imaging such as a CT scan or ultrasound.
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Suryatapa Bhattacharya,
WSJ,
10 Dec. 2021
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And then Ghislaine, again, a little ambiguous weird relationship.
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Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
25 Oct. 2024
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But there’s also a lot of bitterness and disappointment to go around, and the final emotions are complicated and ambiguous.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
26 Oct. 2024
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This was not welcome news, especially since the ultimate fates of Mother and Father remained ambiguous.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
4 Dec. 2021
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Call it my attempt to capture the year’s ambiguous nonverbal phenomena, both positive and negative.
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Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2021
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The business environment today is volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous.
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Hec Paris Insights,
Forbes,
25 Oct. 2024
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The book's ending is much more ambiguous than the film's.
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Juliana Ukiomogbe,
ELLE,
1 Jan. 2023
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But the Court’s change is more ambiguous than first seems.
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Aziz Huq,
Time,
6 July 2023
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Some of the phrases are very clear, but a lot of them are kind of ambiguous.
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Leah Ollman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2022
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The one thing where guidelines are a bit ambiguous is use of a face mask.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
26 Aug. 2020
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The secret is to make ambiguous statements about a wide range of events, and some of them will stick.
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Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
11 June 2022
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This isn’t a week to leave your hunger drifting and ambiguous.
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Claire Comstock-Gay,
The Cut,
19 Mar. 2018
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Quan's background in the film, on the other hand, is left ambiguous.
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Patrick Cooley,
cleveland.com,
13 Oct. 2017
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But the agencies have been ambiguous about their plans.
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New York Times,
31 Mar. 2020
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The stagflation of the past, so obvious to us now, was ambiguous then.
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Jason Zweig,
WSJ,
2 Sep. 2022
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This is the nature of ambiguous laws in one-party states.
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Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2020
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Perrin, on the other hand, is a lot more ambiguous to me.
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Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson,
Ars Technica,
24 Dec. 2021
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So the whole thing was ambiguous by design, but no, there was nothing reshot of that.
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Oct. 2022
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The ending of the film is far more ambiguous than the novel’s conclusion.
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Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2022
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Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
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Rosalind Bentley,
ajc,
24 Aug. 2021
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Even then, the reference is ambiguous and implies the law might no longer be in place.
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Bloomberg.com,
16 Apr. 2018
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The forecast for the rest of the winter remains somewhat ambiguous.
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Hayley Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2024
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But with the rise of cable news, campaign cash has played a smaller and even more ambiguous role.
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Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
22 Nov. 2019
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