waffle
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No fog lights grace the front lower corners; the molded blanks in the lower grille look like waffle irons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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 usually get a skillet or an omelet, then combine that with a waffle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Lucas grinned and shoveled another bite of waffle into his mouth.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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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
When I last wrote this, manager Dave Roberts waffled on the question of whether Kershaw was the greatest Dodger pitcher ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
Then, the judge brought the people into his chambers and they waffled on what they initially said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Every time he waffled, though, Lydia would whip out her phone or her laptop and show him the steadily increasing number of views, comments, and likes “Dearly” had.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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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
Staff ace Gerrit Cole declined to opt out after some initial waffling, then free agent left-handed starter Max Fried was signed for eight years at $218 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
The judge seemed to be waffling as well.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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