The phrase "ambiguous in terms of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations, statements, or concepts that lack clarity or have multiple interpretations regarding a specific aspect.
Example: "The results of the study were ambiguous in terms of their implications for future research."
Alternatives: "unclear regarding" or "vague about".
Until several years ago, the managing director's position was ambiguous in terms of ethics policy.
"Of course, the pictures would be ambiguous in terms of what's up and what's down, what's left and what's right.
But in addition, the name had the advantage of being ambiguous in terms of gender and ethnicity.
A notable difference, for me, is that the moral queasiness of last series is still lacking – we are reminded of the VP's drone strike, but this feels less ambiguous in terms of who is good, and who is evil.
The final assemblagelike composition of perpendicular elements of wood and metal is completely ambiguous in terms of its actual size, weight, function, orientation and vintage, although it resembles one of Irving Penn's elegant, white-ground images.
It could be argued that these stems are ambiguous in terms of their lexical class.
The effect of liberalization of migration has a theoretically ambiguous effect in terms of the selection of immigrants at different skill levels.
Simply asking about NSSI may result in ambiguous situations in terms of the nature of behaviors reported (e.g., severity, potential for lethality) and one's corresponding duty to report.
For this reason and for sake of comparison, we designed three other automata that have the same number of states but are non-ambiguous in term of state mapping.
However, some research studies have reported ambiguous, inconclusive results in terms of learning benefits of interactive visualizations.
In contrast, co- and post-seismic displacements derived by geodetic techniques indicate permanent deformation signals in the near-field around the hypocenters, and thus, the estimated fault model could be less ambiguous, at least, in terms of the location and the geometry of these faults.
