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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
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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.
Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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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
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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
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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.
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The oscillation between equivocality and political commitment also entangles the critically controversial preface to "Alastor."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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