temporizing

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It should be said that Andersson enjoys a clear advantage amid all this temporizing, but it takes just one suboptimal move for Black’s strategy to pay off.

From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2022

So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.

From New York Times • May 2, 2019

That’s exactly the sort of temporizing that Bolton has described as worse than going to war.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2018

US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.

From Nature • Feb. 21, 2017

And occasionally, as we have seen, there glimmered in some Spanish intelligence a faint doubt as to the efficacy of their usual methods, and then for a very short time the authorities would try temporizing.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher