dithers

Example Sentences

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And so even if Congress dithers after today, transparency is coming to platforms one way or another.

From The Verge • May 5, 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

Awarded a promotion, this biracial woman dithers in writing an online biography to accompany her new job title because she is reluctant to identify herself as Scarlet’s first black department head.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

He dithers, and a fair amount of screen time is devoted to a subplot in which he fraudulently jacks up the price of an Art Deco desk he’s trying to sell.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2016

Anyway, the one thing the examiners will not thole is a body that dithers.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian