All 5 Uses
ambiguous
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
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- He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history— the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.†
Part 1ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- Because Mylex is itself a suspect material, the results tended to be ambiguous and a second round of more rigorous detection had to be scheduled.†
Part 1 *
- No ambiguity, no more doubt.†
Part 2ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- Forced out of our homes, sent streaming into the bitter night, pursued by a toxic cloud, crammed together in makeshift quarters, ambiguously death-sentenced.†
Part 2
- Are you saying the printout shows the first ambiguous signs of a barely perceptible condition deriving from minimal acceptable spillage exposure?†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambiguous) unclear -- because there could be two or more interpretations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, ambiguous can mean uncertain or doubtful -- as in the expression "an ambiguous smile".