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How to use the word AMBIGUITY in a Sentence?

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There is no ambiguity, no debate, no dispute, under current law, DeSantis cannot run for president before first resigning as a governor.

Bob Jarvis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is too much ambiguity.

Jon McGowan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The ambiguity of what may or may not be legal and perhaps the reality that the treatment they need will not be available -- it just makes an already bad situation worse.

Sean Tipton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that one of the things Beijing is doing with its aggression with Taiwan is trying to test the United States on where its red lines are and what would Beijing have to do to trigger a U.S. military response, so in some ways what the U.S. is trying to do is clarify its position toward Taiwan and there's a lot of strategic ambiguity built into these policies but Beijing wants to know how much they can do without the U.S. responding so that when they feel confident to mount an actual attack, they are much more in place than they would be otherwise.

Heino Klinck

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every engagement in diplomacy has been designed to further the nuclear program, not to find a way out... I just urge people not to let the tactical ambiguity obstruct the strategic clarity about North Korea that we have, so we should not be overly encouraged if suddenly (North Korea leader Kim Jong Un) proposes dialogue tomorrow, nor should we be overly surprised, or discouraged, if there’s an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) launch by Sunday.

Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Today if we have a child with fever, I'm talking to those parents on a daily basis because of the ambiguity and the fear we all have, we don't want to miss that one kid.

Daniel Cohen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is a huge ambiguity, is a nail clipper a hygiene product? Is a condom a medical item? I'm not able to define that.

Frederic Duval

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The academics believe that there is no room for ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait, and suggests the government maintain its current policy position, strive to participate in the WHO and show goodwill to mainland Chinese suffering from the virus, additionally, minor incidents which could touch off a war across the Taiwan Strait should be avoided, that could become a pressure release point for the Chinese Communists to alleviate internal pressure.

Mainland Affairs Council

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He was calling for something, calling for an investigation that didn't exist into the Bidens and Burisma, my visceral reaction to what was being called for suggested that it was explicit. There was no ambiguity.

Alexander Vindman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a decision that we consider wrong and dangerous, at the moment there is a need for unity. There should be no room for ambiguity.

Ruth Dureghello

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The signal is small, but the level of ambiguity is also small.

Edward Schwieterman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There shouldn't be any ambiguity about that, you have military forces that are led by active duty Russian military personnel. Russian officers are embedded through the chain of command down to the company level. Russia pays for contract soldiers to then fill out the whole military force and this goes to a Russian firm -- that then hires the soldiers and provides them to the Donbas. The training, the equipment, the troop rotations, the supplies -- all of this comes directly from Russia.

Kurt Volker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a very well-done analysis of older trials, and there was no ambiguity that there was not a signal of cancer risk.

Howard Weintraub

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Looking at all of those trials that were conducted with a variety of these medications within the ARB family, there was no hint of a cancer risk, it was a very well-done analysis of older trials, and there was no ambiguity that there was not a signal of cancer risk.

Howard Weintraub

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Part of Read MoreIt involves the recording, it's not a very high quality. And that in itself allows there to be some ambiguity already.

Brad Story

Found on CNN
5 years ago

15 traits common for the people who do really well in start-up 1. Deal with ambiguity 2. Can work without handholding 3. Hustler and fighter 4. keep trying and never give up 5. High Passion and Energy 6. No sense of entitlements 7. Excellent in multi-tasking 8. Prototyping - start from somewhere and get better 9. Byte by byte or piece by piece approach 10. Hungry and ambitious 11. Learn from mistakes 12. Not afraid of failures 13. High on common sense 14. Dare to dream 15. Push their limits and step out of their comfort zone

Sandeep Aggarwal

added by letsdroomer
6 years ago

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

John Wayne

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

I do believe that (Trump) messed up in his comments on Tuesday, when it sounded like a moral equivocation, or at the very least moral ambiguity, when we need extreme moral clarity.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Foreign nationals in the DPRK really have to allow for there to be no ambiguity or interpretation about any of their interactions or what they're doing.

Michael Madden

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Oh, I'm looking forward to these trade deals, there is going to be no ambiguity.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We have to get used to buying in that knowledge and dealing with the higher level of ambiguity perhaps than we've seen before.

Unilever Chief Executive Paul Polman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Right now is a time of a certain sway in public opinion, a certain ambiguity (regarding the EU).

Antoni Macierewicz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The one-for-one model I’ve found is really effective in allowing a consumer to know exactly what’s going to happen. There is no ambiguity; there’s no crazy accounting. You buy a pair of shoes; we give a pair of shoes to a child in need.

Blake Mycoskie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is still ambiguity about whether the air bombings will stop entirely, the statement is not clear enough about that and we still have some concerns about that.

Basma Kodmani

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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