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- noun mixed feelings or emotions
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Examples
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I always felt that we could have been led into war in 2003 for better reasons than the WMD, but the movie doesn't have that ambivalency.
Green Zone The Brillig Blogger 2010
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I always felt that we could have been led into war in 2003 for better reasons than the WMD, but the movie doesn't have that ambivalency.
Archive 2010-03-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010
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When I saw this on Broadway there was a lot of ambivalency.
Archive 2008-12-01 The Brillig Blogger 2008
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When I saw this on Broadway there was a lot of ambivalency.
Cinema under the tree The Brillig Blogger 2008
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War is an example of ambivalency on the grandest scale.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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At other points, though, there's again ambivalency or spot-on choices slamming up against head-shaking "Wait, why?" decisions.
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