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Recent Examples of ambiguously
Moore hated White’s book Stuart Little, in which a mouse is born to a human woman, and which ends abruptly and ambiguously, with the little mouse’s future very much up to the reader.
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Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.
—Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Linda is tasked with caring for her ambiguously ill child while her husband is out of town for work; their apartment ceiling collapses, forcing her and her daughter into a motel.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.
—Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Linda is tasked with caring for her ambiguously ill child while her husband is out of town for work; their apartment ceiling collapses, forcing her and her daughter into a motel.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambiguously
Adverb
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Still, some businesses have suggested consumers could indirectly benefit.—
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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Those programs are still going through the rulemaking process and, again, would benefit only those covered by the Medicare program and only indirectly.—
Elisabeth Rosenthal,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
Adverb
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If an Entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or destroyed, entrant’s sole remedy shall be another entry into the Sweepstakes.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
10 May 2026
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This comes just days after FIFA President Gianni Infantino tried to defend the sky-high ticket prices by (erroneously) comparing them to college football get-in prices.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
Adverb
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Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and defends a Black man who’s been falsely accused of raping a white woman.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
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Cody Hayes/TikTok Scores of online companies are increasingly turning to generative AI technology to deceive consumers, falsely portraying themselves as struggling small businesses to charge a premium for lower quality products, an ABC News visual investigation found.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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Inside, the floor plan flows circuitously, creating an open plan filled with natural light.—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2026
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And the fact that lots of these startups ultimately sell to other startups circuitously makes things even more insular.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ambiguously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambiguously. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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