temporize
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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 universities should not temporize if that happens.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017
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
She had a vague idea of returning to it by a graceful transition, but one did not suggest itself to her, and she dared temporize no further.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Frank Lewis Nason
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
But whereas the airport example is spatialized and temporized in physically contained senses, internet dwell time is able to insinuate itself into so many other places and moments of everyday life.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2019
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
“Ah just had one,” Janie temporized with her conscience.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a key ally from his new Cabinet, bowing to a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court after days of temporizing.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
That’s exactly the sort of temporizing that Bolton has described as worse than going to war.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2018
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
The indecision and temporizing spirit of Georgia, for a time, was painful to her truly patriotic sons who early espoused the cause of Liberty.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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