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- verb Present participle of
ambiguate .
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Examples
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Black students, however, faced a different meaning: the "ambiguating" possibility that the criticism was motivated by negative stereotypes about their group as much as by the work itself.
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Black students, however, faced a different meaning: the "ambiguating" possibility that the criticism was motivated by negative stereotypes about their group as much as by the work itself.
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But while there is an ambiguating risk in such reading, I have never found it to be an unwarranted one.
Review of War of the Worlds Richard Nokes 2005
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But while there is an ambiguating risk in such reading, I have never found it to be an unwarranted one.
Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Finally, if it's OK, then how exactly would an ally go about ambiguating?
Balkinization 2005
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The following list provides a few suggestions of the sort of thing one could do or say to create an ambiguating effect.
Balkinization 2005
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Such a move would not only ambiguate the list, it would be a voluntarily self-ambiguating move.
Balkinization 2005
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If the process of ambiguating and the rationales for it help us to examine and perhaps resolve some of these negative messages, the process is constructive.
Balkinization 2005
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If gay peoples' "coming out" is ambiguating, so too might be heterosexual peoples' "going in."
Balkinization 2005
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But coming out can be ambiguating, too, because people who come out are bound to defy the preconceptions of their audience -- by being individuals, not categories.
Balkinization 2005
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