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This property is “extravagantly prized” by Amhara people per Donald N. Levine, who called modern thinking a “flight from” it and studied its use in qene (“KEN-eh”) poetry in Wax and Gold. Else Frenkel-Brunswik argued that authoritarian personalities exhibit an intolerance of this property that is a common cognitive distortion in anxiety disorders. Pauline Boss coined a term for this type of “loss,” which causes “frozen grief” by preventing emotional closure. German-speaking countries rank high on a measure of “avoidance” of this property that serves as one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. (-5[1])Social situations (-5[2])with this property (-5[1])may elicit negative interpretation bias. (-5[1])Illusory (-5[1])images with a visual form of this property cause multistable perception of reversible figures like the duck–rabbit. (10[1])For 10 points, what property (-5[1])is denied (10[1])by black-and-white thinking? (10[2])■END■ (10[11]0[9])

ANSWER: ambiguity [accept uncertainty, nuanced, unclear, lack of clarity, or synonyms; accept ambiguous images, situational ambiguity, ambiguous loss, ambiguity tolerance, intolerance of ambiguity, uncertainty avoidance, or The Flight from Ambiguity; prompt on ambivalence or ambivalent; prompt on TA or UAI by asking “what does that stand for?”; reject “risk”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Danila KabotyanskiIndianaBerkeley B89-5
Shiv SeshanChicago DBerkeley A91-5
Akshay SeetharamClaremont CollegesBrown91-5
Yashodev VyasMinnesota BNYU94-5
Robert CondronChicago BRutgers99-5
Nathan ZhangCornell ANorth Carolina B100-5
Ben DahlPurduePenn11710
Wenying WuToronto AIowa State122-5
Michal GerasimiukStanfordMaryland12410
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia TechChicago A12710
Joseph ChambersVirginiaFlorida12710
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley AChicago D12810
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillChicago C12810
Conor ThompsonIowa StateToronto A12810
Andrew WangIllinoisMinnesota A12810
Halle FriedmanNYUMinnesota B12810
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BCornell A12810
Gabrielle ClarkOttawaColumbia A12810
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AOttawa1280
Kushal AluruRutgersChicago B1280
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaWUSTL B1280
Amith PunyalaWUSTL BSouth Carolina1280
Mitchell ShaddenTexasArizona State12810
Jaik HavlickArizona StateTexas1280
Ben WismathToronto BColumbia B12810
Jack RadoColumbia BToronto B1280
Fred GarveyTruman StateVanderbilt1280
Aidan FeinVanderbiltTruman State1280
Charles HangWUSTL ADuke12810
Mattias EhatammWaterlooMichigan12810
Todd MaslykMichiganWaterloo1280