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What does ambivalent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ambivalent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
  2. Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
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Women who are ambivalent about the permanence of the procedure should be counseled to strongly consider another contraceptive method.
Today, one would look to the novel as the vehicle for this ambivalent and bifold struggle.
To me, this is an example of our somewhat ambivalent attitudes towards medical care in general.
In practice, we have managed to do better than our ambivalent attitudes suggest.
As an instinctive fence-sitter, I have recently found myself ambivalent on most of them.
The same ambivalent usage marks anarchist versions of the truth, or those of radical feminists.

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