dither
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Elias has decided to stay put even as prices dither.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
And while Hamlet may dither in seeking revenge for his father’s murder, we don’t hope that the scheming Claudius gets away with it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
The Royal College of Nursing has called for a "significant pay rise" and accused UK ministers of "dither and delay".
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
"In the past we haven't seen that. We've seen years of dither and delay, legal challenges."
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
She had worked herself up into a real dither.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
But the feature dithers in development, which becomes something of a running joke here; the shot of a stone-faced Mr. McElwee watching a ridiculous promo reel is a moment of perfectly understated comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But he just dithers or pouts or stares at her blankly while the bad guys close in.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2018
But it tends to defeat efficient compression, because the very thing that dithers to reduce moire patterns also tends to work against compression schemes.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
Beirut dithered away all of 2025 while U.S. envoy Tom Barrack pleaded with it to disarm Hezbollah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
It was a much quieter affair after the break but Parris was at hand to capitalise as Spurs dithered and were unable to clear the ball from the six-yard box.
From BBC ● May 7, 2023
Colfax was a front-runner to succeed Greeley at the helm of the Tribune but faced resistance from his wife and hesitated to seek the job, which went to distinguished correspondent Whitelaw Reid while Colfax dithered.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
While local officials dithered over its fate, its whereabouts remained a mystery, and many want to keep it that way.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2022
Mrs. Cranston dithered up and down the hall.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
After months of burying the accusations, and more than two years of dithering, the International Criminal Court at last fired its prosecutor, Karim Khan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"The reason that he's dithering is because he doesn't know where the money is coming from," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
After some dithering, I settled on my home state of New York.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
It would rather binge-watch thousands of hours of trashy TV shows than deal with the dithering crew of space hippies to which it’s been assigned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
It was a pretense, his dithering refusal—he was one of the most confident people she had ever met.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing dither
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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