Example Sentences

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If Gen Xers are the bosses now, they are the bosses only in a very Gen X way: ambivalently, fleetingly and with dubious authority.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2022

And I have to tell you, I approach these people I love so much very ambivalently because I’ve been disappointed.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2021

That is a deeply disturbing dynamic, on and off screen, and a legacy with which Hollywood and its ambivalently rapt audiences continue to wrestle.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2021

But his actions are not the actions of someone who hates gay men, and his life betrays a deep love for the community that felt so ambivalently toward him.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2020

Consider how repetitively and ambivalently they "reach out" to authority figures.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.