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ambiguous - use in sentences
Preposition: on
- point: Everyday language is very ambiguous on this point: ' How would you classify ( identify ) this?
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: By making the imagery ambiguous I want to allow space for individual interpretation.
Modifies a noun
- genitalia: In pregnant women the drug can result in ambiguous genitalia in any male fetus.
- wording: The recommendations of the committee are also weakened by lack of detail and by vague and ambiguous wording.
- ending: I'd have preferred a much more ambiguous ending, one in which the future of the world was much more in doubt.
- sexuality: Some talk of it being a gray area, or of ambiguous sexuality.
- phrase: Unfortunately an ambiguous phrase about the possession of such weapons went through, leading to years of argument about nuclear deterrence.
- verse: They have confused the interpretation of the Qur'an with returning the ambiguous verse to the decisive.
Modifying Another Word
- morally: This is a morally ambiguous world yet le Carré never lets us forget that the other side is worse, just.
- sexually: Like many modern pop idols he was sexually ambiguous.
- somewhat: Firstly, there are a number of specific issues left somewhat ambiguous in the document.
- intentionally: Michelle Posted on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 12:05 am: Grant's songs are intentionally ambiguous.
- deliberately: In contrast, the modern open work is deliberately ambiguous.
- strangely: Aside from this tradition, it is for him " the experience of West Cornwall which has always been that of strangely ambiguous spaces.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: The general efficacy of the nurse crop remained ambiguous.
- seem: It does seem rather ambiguous to say it is being spent on ' patient care ' .
- become: By contrast, an ' open-ended ' work becomes more ambiguous, not less, the more it is played.
- leave: Firstly, there are a number of specific issues left somewhat ambiguous in the document.
Preposition: in
- context: The stories of course were deliberately designed so as to be ambiguous in a Northern Irish context.
- way: The Government do not accept that what we have ended up with is ambiguous in the way implied by some speakers.
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