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Each time, the Fed chose the same posture: assess; equivocate, delay.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

"If he moves toward FX unification that is also a positive. He cannot equivocate."

From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023

The medical community has largely done the same thing: appease and equivocate.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

That’s the guts, to claim the permission to love what you love, to be all of the things you are, without having to equivocate or explain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

She refused to equivocate on the issue of school desegregation, and in the Hispanic community she became an important, heroic voice.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The Book of Esther was so welcome this year because it never equivocates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Where he once placed himself firmly on Team Diana, here he equivocates, and only more so as his narrative marches toward the present.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022

Instead the agency equivocates, emphasizing comfort and stating people should “wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022

So it really matters how Facebook equivocates about conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, even if critics can differ on the precise right approach.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2018

“Horatio, you speak like a philosopher who equivocates truth and falsehood,” I said impatiently.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

But he has equivocated over how to get there, sometimes leaning into the threat of force, other times pushing the diplomacy.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Per the indictment, when Employee No. 4 equivocated, Nauta repeated the statement insistently and asked, without apparently subtlety, “What are we going to do?”

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2023

At City Hall though, council members and nonprofit officials equivocated.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and the president of Samaritan’s Purse, equivocated.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022

In pursuance of their previous agreement, the Araucanians objected, equivocated, and at length appeared to consent, but ended by requesting the necessary assistance for beginning the work.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Third, political leaders must stop equivocating when antisemitism appears in activist movements, universities or cultural institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

Inside, we shared a 90-minute pocket where Muslim joy didn’t need disclaimers or cautious sidestepping and equivocating.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

About 40% of lawmakers — nearly equally divided between Democrats and Republicans — surveyed said they didn’t intend to assert a special privilege to withhold their emails and other records, without equivocating.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Because Kim has spent multiple seasons, and possibly years of her life before “Better Call Saul” started, equivocating and rationalizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

"Most of them are sailors!" said Cashel, equivocating.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James