temporizing

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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

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

I think that your husband’s temporizing may be a better strategy than outright refusal.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

They need to stop moralizing and deal with reality; they need to stop temporizing and, for once, get ahead of the curve.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2012

He returned to the foreign office in 1880, only to find an anti-British spirit developing in German policy which the temporizing methods of the Liberal leaders were generally powerless to deal with.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various