equivocating
Example Sentences
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Third, political leaders must stop equivocating when antisemitism appears in activist movements, universities or cultural institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Veterans of the space community reflected on the 2017 document, conspicuously silent on budgets and timelines, equivocating between excitement and concern.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 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
But the equivocating witness soon discovers that his falsehood is hunted out of its recesses with an unsparing determination.
From Sketches and Studies by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
