Explore Ambiguity through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like saying or expression. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Ambiguity in a sentence
Ambiguity meaning
- The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation.
- An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.
Synonyms of Ambiguity
Ambiguity vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Ambiguity
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation. | An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.
- Useful related words include: saying, expression, locution, equivocalness.
- Possible Dutch translations are: dubbelzinnigheid, ambiguïteit.
- In the example corpus, ambiguity often appears in combinations such as: the ambiguity, ambiguity in, ambiguity of.
Context around Ambiguity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ambiguity
- In this selection, "ambiguity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gender, range, moral, resolution, tolerance and intolerance stand out and add context to how "ambiguity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ambiguity in villains and and haunting ambiguity to their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ambiguity" sits close to words such as addo, coma and cyrus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ambiguity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lexical ambiguity is contrasted with semantic ambiguity. (7 words)
In this sense, strategic ambiguity has totally failed. (8 words)
As a director, I love stories where there’s ambiguity. (10 words)
Dr. Paul Minot, whose nearly four decades as a psychiatrist do not stop him from vocally critiquing the field, feels his industry is too quick to gloss over the "ambiguity" of mental health, presenting diagnoses as certain when in fact there's gray area. (44 words)
And that difficulty in putting together a credible campaign to contest in all the local government bodies was reflected today in the comments by Mr Norton… So, the ambiguity is not because of strategic thinking. (35 words)
For most of this presentation and subsequent discussion, the expression “great park” was used as an all-encompassing term, but it was Councilmember Gleam Davis that raised the issue concerning the ambiguity of this definition. (35 words)
How hard is it to moderate my market pronouncements to have a bit of healthy ambiguity? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
We were told that “ambiguity tolerance” was good and “ambiguity intolerance” was bad, and that leaders who could live with ambiguity were more creative and resilient.
Ambiguity in villains is com- pelling, but perhaps the reason “Joker” has been so widely con- demned is that no one wants to see ambiguity in a character like Fleck.
François Maximilian Misson (visiting Rome in the spring of April 1688) wrote: error Gender ambiguity and sexuality Christina's gender ambiguity did not end with her style of dress.
Lexical ambiguity is contrasted with semantic ambiguity.
Range ambiguity resolution main The range ambiguity resolution techniques used with medium pulse repetition frequency radar can be seen as a special case of the Chinese remainder theorem.
A flashback episode that details how James became a better person and earned Lily's love could further support the themes of moral ambiguity throughout and demonstrate how nearly everyone can be redeemed.
After the release of the minutes, financial markets displayed a degree of ambiguity, as major stock indices saw slight gains.
And that difficulty in putting together a credible campaign to contest in all the local government bodies was reflected today in the comments by Mr Norton… So, the ambiguity is not because of strategic thinking.
As a director, I love stories where there’s ambiguity.
Dr. Paul Minot, whose nearly four decades as a psychiatrist do not stop him from vocally critiquing the field, feels his industry is too quick to gloss over the "ambiguity" of mental health, presenting diagnoses as certain when in fact there's gray area.
Find out what people are negotiating at work and reduce the social risk of asking by decreasing ambiguity around whether negotiating is appropriate.
For another, there’s a sense of grandeur and haunting ambiguity to their appearance, the latter element informed by how they’re constantly shrouded in mist.
For most of this presentation and subsequent discussion, the expression “great park” was used as an all-encompassing term, but it was Councilmember Gleam Davis that raised the issue concerning the ambiguity of this definition.
Given the complexity and ambiguity of this informal economy, local knowledge is at a premium.
He did not say who was responsible, and Ukraine did not claim to have been behind the blast, although Kyiv generally maintains a policy of strategic ambiguity about strikes on Russian territory.
He said the BBC needed to “resolve the ambiguity” over impartiality rules on social media.
However, the film is best known for its iconic standoff sequence when the pillars of heroism, villainy, and moral ambiguity square off in a three-way duel.
How hard is it to moderate my market pronouncements to have a bit of healthy ambiguity?
In order to clarify any ambiguity in state law, Asm.
In this sense, strategic ambiguity has totally failed.
Common combinations with ambiguity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ambiguity 32×
- ambiguity in 20×
- ambiguity of 18×
- ambiguity and 16×
- for ambiguity 16×
- and ambiguity 13×
- of ambiguity 13×
- ambiguity around 9×
- ambiguity about 9×
- no ambiguity 9×