equivocate

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

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

He didn’t equivocate and he did not lie to me to make himself look better.

From Salon ● May 18, 2024

Asked by a reporter last week whether he considered the Houthis a terrorist group, Mr. Biden did not equivocate.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Nov. 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

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

“I need to hide my argument,” equivocates Koestenbaum, “or hide from myself its very existence, because random details restore my birthright optimism.”

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

But whether out of distraction or fear, Timberlake equivocates too much for Man of the Woods to convey any captivating sense of change.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 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

“I think we’ll try for $2 trillion. I think that’s, like, the best-case outcome,” he equivocated.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2025

David Malpass, the World Bank president who equivocated about the science of climate change, said he would step down early.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

“If settled means that it can’t be re-examined, then that’s one thing,” Alito equivocated.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

"The risk is distasteful to me," she equivocated, after a pause.

From Bandit Love by Juanita Savage

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

Always doubting is uncomfortable, always questioning is disorienting; equivocating not very inspirational.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

They might have nobly effected a complete settlement of Ireland, which a shattered section of this very cabinet was forced a few years after to do partially, and in an equivocating and equivocal manner.

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield