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temporize

verb as in gain or make time

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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.

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Once the expense of spirit, dollars, actions and arguments to keep alive the possibility of a second term is ended, the need for Biden to posture or tactically temporize will be gone, too.

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Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.

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It’s also that the mainstream conservatives who remain depend so much on the ballots and energy of the nuts and the zealots that they hold back and temporize.

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

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