Brief inter-titles weren't good at making complicated meanings clear; in those few words, ambiguity, for instance, couldn't be more than barely suggested.
CONSERVATIVE Republicans don't like strategic ambiguity, warning that China might conclude erroneously that Washington would stand on the sidelines during an attack on Taiwan; in other words, ambiguity could invite an attack.
Following the review of these translations by Czech traffic psychologists, problematic items were identified (in terms of wording, ambiguity, and specific features of the Czech context), and these were then translated anew by another translator.
Target sentences included an ambiguous word, the ambiguity of which was not resolved within the clause.
But "muddlement," in many ways, is a more original word than "ambiguity," and implies confusion and not being sure the way something can be interpreted, not just in alternative ways but in many ways.
We also have a word sense ambiguity problem: how do we know that here "mother" means "a female parent", rather than the Oxford English Dictionary-approved alternative of "a cask or vat used in vinegar-making"?
It is regrettable that Darwin did not make the distinctions of the meaning of instinct more explicit, for he gave powerful precedent for the indiscriminate use of the word, the ambiguity of which has repeatedly clouded and confused the understanding of behaviour.
When I asked him if the family possessed the sort of cash reserves that would help protect Haaretz, and insure its independence, Schocken said that he would use the word amimut — ambiguity, opacity — which is the tactic the Israeli government uses when it deflects questions about its nuclear arsenal.
Mature is another example of a word with ambiguity, and any definition based on age or reproductive ability might obscure vagueness that is inherent in defining maturity.
