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  • noun The quality of being equivocal.

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  • The problem is, orchestras and the like are among those organizations for which the reduction of equivocality is almost necessarily happenstance.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The problem is, orchestras and the like are among those organizations for which the reduction of equivocality is almost necessarily happenstance.

    Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Weick still does, focusing, in part, on how organizations use self-imposed limitations on the interpretation of information to reduce equivocality, that is, when one fact can be considered to have multiple meanings.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Weick still does, focusing, in part, on how organizations use self-imposed limitations on the interpretation of information to reduce equivocality, that is, when one fact can be considered to have multiple meanings.

    Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • This overall equivocality of figurative implication and attribution signals a peculiarly material and sensual relation of thought to itself that becomes most marked at yet another level of the poem.

    _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

  • The oscillation between equivocality and political commitment also entangles the critically controversial preface to "Alastor."

    _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

  • I repeat it in Latin, because the equivocality, which equally implies, that Pyrrhus could conquer the Romans, and the Romans Pyrrhus, will not subsist in a translation.

    The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

  • But really, the equivocality of the constitution and the daily barrage on the media and the journalists is symptomatic of a more fundamental fact of the Afghan society: there is an ongoing culture war in Afghanistan.

    Safrangُ Hamid Nabil 2009

  • Jaymash13 It amazes me that there are over 300 million people in the USA and there are no 2 a like, but somehow there are only 2 political parties!? stephsoccerga Ch 8 ACTPL Did political parties form out of equivocality?

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • More specifically, this year's 2009 Asian Art Biennial explores how a multiplicity of perspectives have come to inform our contemporary reality, and how such reality, characterized by high degrees of equivocality, has in turn enriched the cultural perspectives of Asia.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2009

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