ambiguous status

collocation in English

meaningsofambiguousandstatus

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ambiguous
adjective
uk
/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/us
/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/
having or expressing more than one possible meaning, ...
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status
noun
uk
/ˈsteɪ.təs/us
/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/
an accepted or official position, especially in a ...
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(Definition ofambiguousandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofambiguous status

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The premiers were now firmly in the deployment net, theirambiguousstatusgone.
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This seems to me a highly questionable model that lumps together the clinical and the socio-cultural and thus returns insanity to itsambiguousstatus.
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In this last category are procedures with anambiguousstatus.
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The individual'sambiguousstatuscan also be manipulated depending on the situation.
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Third, theambiguousstatusof reflexives in these languages indicates that reflexives with potential syntactic antecedents may not require obligatory binding.
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Yet the label was also indicative of theambiguousstatusof psychology as an academic discipline in the neighborhood of philosophy or as a subdiscipline of academic philosophy.
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The legal need for the amendment arises because of theambiguousstatusof industrial tribunals.
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Hansard archive
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Some conduct will be excluded directly, but other conduct will have anambiguousstatus.
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Hansard archive
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This practice, however, could signify theambiguousstatusof the said position.
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Many tie-in novels and novelizations have theambiguousstatusof being officially sanctioned, for-profit fan fiction - though once again, this largely depends on one's definition of fan fiction.
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