dithers

Example Sentences

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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

“Borders are closed, aircraft grounded and ships anchored as W.H.O. mutely dithers over whether or not to declare an emergency.”

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2020

But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018

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

And the high brass went into a dither to end all dithers as tapes of the received material reached the Pentagon and were translated into intelligible speech and pictures.

From The Machine That Saved The World by Leinster, Murray