: Is this sentence ambiguous? I'm trying to write something sort of poetic sounding. Instead of memories let's discover the present that we wanted to search for. I'm thinking that maybe

I'm trying to write something sort of poetic sounding.

Instead of memories let's discover the
present that we wanted to search for.

I'm thinking that maybe I should write the word "moment" after "present" to make it unambiguous. I would rather not though, because I don't want to limit the meaning of "present" to "this moment." I would like to leave it open so that it can mean "this day" or "this time." But then if I don't add the word "moment", I think that this might bring up images of searching for presents during Christmas, and I don't want that to happen. What do you think?

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You could replace "present" with "now" (or something similar) and remove the potential for ambiguity.

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