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Six example sentences with ambivalence, each labelled with its topic.
Her ambivalence showed in the way she packed the suitcase twice and then left it standing by the door.
Psychology
The novel ends in ambivalence, with the narrator both relieved and sorry that the old house has finally been sold.
Literature
The founders felt real ambivalence about the offer: it would fund the product and end their control of it.
Startups
Voters showed deep ambivalence about the new highway, wanting shorter commutes and mourning the orchards it would cross.
Politics
Sartre treated ambivalence as a normal human condition, since we can want freedom and fear it in the same breath.
Philosophy
The film's power lies in the daughter's ambivalence, as she both loves her father and cannot forgive him.
Movies
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