waffle

Anthropic is one frontier operator that gives its model permission to waffle on the sentience question, calling it uncertain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"I was listening to the chairman last week and it was the usual waffle that we get from the Celtic boardroom," John Dykes said on the Scottish Football Podcast.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026

I don’t eat that great, but if you’re ever gonna eat bad, Sunday is the day to do it, so you gotta get the waffle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

I try to put the fur and the waffle cone out of my mind.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

While Dolan’s office said New York was “blessed with the greatest bagel stores in the world,” the cardinal waffled on announcing from which establishment he would be buying the goods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024

That sentiment was immediately undermined, however, when she waffled nonsensically, seemingly oblivious to how freedom is won in warfare.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2023

While she waffled between asking Ham and not asking him, she never gave a thought to asking Julian Singh.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

When “Yellowstone,” Sheridan’s first show, premiered in 2018, #MeToo was reverberating across television with producers waffling over whether to villainize or defend macho characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025

And although Harrelson, 61, has been enthusiastic about the test, McConaughey, 53, said he’s been waffling a bit more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

After waffling over it late into the night, I fall asleep, still undecided.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau