How to Use ambiguity in a Sentence

ambiguity

noun

• There’s a lot of ambiguity to that scene, and that’s what works about it.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• The Heir and the Spare—there was no judgment about it, but also no ambiguity.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
• This is an ambitious movie that takes swings and plays with a fair amount of ambiguity.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• In the play and the more successful photographs, the ambiguity comes through.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The ambiguities of the Magi’s apparition remain a lesson in whom to call wise, and why to call them so.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• The strategic ambiguity piece of this comes into play as well.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• In the absence of the Supreme Judge, the world suddenly appeared in its fearsome ambiguity. . . .
  — Robyn Davidson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• Because of that ambiguity, the onus is usually on workers to make the case for support.
  — Laura Casey, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
• The reason for this ban is due to the ambiguity surrounding the legality of delta 8.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
• The purpose of strategic ambiguity is to leave doubt in the mind of a potential aggressor.
  — Readers, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
• The rules are also rife with gray areas and ambiguities.
  — Austin Weinstein, Fortune, 4 June 2023
• But in Japan, with its taste for asymmetry and ambiguity, his work sparked a whole school of followers.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• And the power of images lies less in their arguments than in their ambiguities.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• If that happens, the ambiguity will be gone — blue checks will mean Blue subscriptions.
  — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
• One of the things that concerns me at the moment (both inside and outside the art world) is our impatience with ambivalence and ambiguity.
  — Prudence Crowther, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2023
• Still, there is some ambiguity, and Ziegler’s original memo does not lay out how a replacement race would play out.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• There was no ambiguity about what constituted a job well done, and no lingering job stress to keep me up at night.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• This ambiguity has been more a feature than a bug of U.S. policy.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
• The ambiguity allowed the developer to postpone the day his company would have to make the payment.
  — Jmanning, oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
• When MacPhail shifts from the personal to the global, ambiguity remains.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• The ambiguity of the underline/strikethrough is almost certainly just a mistake by an old man in poor health who rarely had cause to write anything.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
• The ambiguities in his lyrics and his songforms felt more magnetic.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• That then leads to confusion, ambiguity and a lack of alignment.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• In a functioning system, there would be no ambiguity about who had approved a project.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Despite the ambiguity, the encounter was a win-win situation, as Roberts put it.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The ambiguity, for the first few episodes, is tantalizing.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• The researchers said that the findings point to a need to clarify ambiguities in the law, and that state agencies could provide clearer metrics to guide local efforts.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Her solo show of paintings and intaglio prints are from an ongoing series that evokes the same dreamy ambiguity.
  — Briana Miller, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• In fact, those very complexities and ambiguities are what attracted Renthal to the study of pain.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Among other major changes, that law required such royalties to be paid for pre-1972 records, ending the state-level ambiguity that drove the Turtles to sue.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024