How to Use ambiguity in a Sentence

ambiguity

noun
  • To clear up any ambiguity, Claire and Owen have a steamy kiss at the top of the film.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • What Shawn did was true to what the show was about, which was shades of gray and ambiguity.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a lot of ambiguity to that scene, and that’s what works about it.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • But that would be a dicey thing to do in our era, so the film backs off from any ambiguity.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • To play the ambiguity was the most challenging and fun part of being part of the show.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Shades of gray in this black-and-white film, of course, are a play on the idea of racial ambiguity that is so central to the story.
    — Imani Perry, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The Heir and the Spare—there was no judgment about it, but also no ambiguity.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Robert heard him out but shot the idea down: there was no horror twist yet—and, worse, no ambiguity.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • There's a moral ambiguity to the Bond of the 21st century.
    — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There is no tonal ambiguity in Episode Three of Lee’s epic.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But learning to live with ambiguity can go a long way in helping get us to the end of this crisis.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The ambiguity of the process has sparked speculation around who gets a bag and why.
    — Joan Kennedy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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 great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • But there is a trace of ambiguity in the final moments.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • There is ambiguity in exceptions for the life of the mother, too.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
  • By the end, all snaps into place, though not without some queasy ambiguities and the outings of evil machinations on the part of at least one of the parents.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2025
  • If this weren’t bad enough, there are also some ambiguities in the syntax.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
  • Scholz stressed the need to keep some ambiguity about sanctions to press Russia to deescalate.
    — David McHugh, ajc, 8 Feb. 2022
  • While fans have been frustrated by the team’s record and the ambiguity of the club’s future, some remain hopeful.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The strategic ambiguity piece of this comes into play as well.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • To me this is a difficult one to deal with because of its ambiguity.
    — Jim Weygand, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • In the absence of the Supreme Judge, the world suddenly appeared in its fearsome ambiguity. . . .
    — Robyn Davidson, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And that ambiguity resonates with the subjects, many of whom one suspects might have been high when the picture was taken.
    — Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 30 July 2021
  • There's some ambiguity about what might be real and what might be entirely in Marc and Steven's head.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 5 May 2022
  • The judge disagreed with that, finding there was no ambiguity about whether the character of Pascal was to blame.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Because of that ambiguity, the onus is usually on workers to make the case for support.
    — Laura Casey, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2023
  • These are some of the myriad ambiguities that hold one’s attention on what would otherwise be a very slight story.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025

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