as in equivocally
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Recent Examples of ambiguously
Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening.
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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
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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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Penny Weaver,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Kent, in his letter to Trump, indirectly blamed his wife’s death on Israel too.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
17 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously posted — and then deleted — a message that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the strait near Iran, only for the White House to concede no operation had occurred.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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Hundreds of millions of dollars were erroneously wired across the state, apparently due to a subtle technical error.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
11 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The longtime officer falsely told investigators that another person was at the wheel before the multivehicle crash that killed a pedestrian, records show.—
Chase Rogers,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Mamdani hit back at Tuberville’s jibe, which falsely suggested that Mamdani or Muslims support terrorism.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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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
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“Ambiguously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambiguously. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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