temporize

Dahlia Lithwick: There is a very human propensity, especially in times of crisis, to normalize and rationalize and temporize.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025

Rab1, and Black is left to temporize as White methodically prepares his breakthrough.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

The jurors did not temporize or attempt to split hairs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021

Petry’s tendency to temporize may be a crucial asset, according to Hajo Funke, an expert on Germany’s far right who has just published a book, “On Angry Citizens and Arsonists,” about the AfD.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

He must temporize, but he made up his mind that those who had revolted from his authority would pay dearly for it sooner or later.

From Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Lester Chadwick

In the interim, however, this technology comes to us wrapped in some unprepossessing, temporized designs, like this fat-bellied seal in a plastic waistcoat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

As the Kerry campaign temporized about whether to ignore the slurs or respond to them, the book reached No. 1 on the Times best-seller list.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019

But Mr. Richardson is right: She has temporized in response to atrocity.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018

He has brooded, hedged, dodged, vacillated, hesitated, temporized, and mulled.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017

“Ah just had one,” Janie temporized with her conscience.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

It should be said that Andersson enjoys a clear advantage amid all this temporizing, but it takes just one suboptimal move for Black’s strategy to pay off.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

The downside of Ms. Merkel’s flexibility and compromise has been a certain amount of flip-flopping and temporizing.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2021

So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2019

US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.

From Nature ● Feb. 21, 2017

Such were the wretched devices by which Philip, who inherited this policy of temporizing expedients from his father, endeavored to replenish his exhausted treasury.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott