equivocate

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

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

He doesn't have to explain, equivocate or retreat into the passive voice.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

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

But once again, he equivocates: He admits that he is not certain that a president can pardon himself.

From Slate ● May 21, 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

This would have been avoided if you hadn’t equivocated when I asked you how the matter stood.

From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

This was evident throughout Tuesday, with Blanche sparring incessantly with Cohen about his constant media appearances and his seemingly equivocating answers about those appearances.

From Slate ● May 16, 2024

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

When she pressed him on what he meant, Mr. Trump gave an equivocating answer: “Not — not that I can think of.”

From New York Times ● May 11, 2023

If I am defeated I shall be defeated by equivocating cowardice, and I shall consider myself honoured.”

From Pages from a Journal with Other Papers by Mark Rutherford