Suppressing Disambiguation message

Authoring TADS
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modify libMessages

    announceAmbigActionObject(obj, whichObj, action) {     
    	if(obj.suppressAnnounceAmbig) return '';
        else return inherited(obj,whichObj,action); }
    announceDefaultObject(obj, whichObj, action, resolvedAllObjects) { 
    	if(obj.suppressAnnounceAmbig) return '';
        else return inherited(obj,whichObj,action,resolvedAllObjects); }
;
modify Thing
    suppressAnnounceAmbig = nil 
;

You could get more detailed by defining suppressAnnounceAmbig(action) and changing the if-checks in the announce… methods to pass the current action. I didn’t find that necessary…
Hope this helps!

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