waffle
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Collectors pay up for rare, vintage products like waffle irons and garden gnomes; a Grateful Dead pan fetched $4,100 in an auction at the Lodge Museum in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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've never heard so much waffle," Hearn replied.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
Don’t be shy about shape or size — shoestring, steak-cut, crinkle, waffle, sweet potato — I’ll even give a pass to tater tots for the sake of this exercise.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
Hammie waves around a forkful of waffle and nods at the image displayed in midair before us.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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
Then, the judge brought the people into his chambers and they waffled on what they initially said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
I sat up and rubbed the waffled pattern the sofa cushion had left on my cheek.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
But the new uncertainty arrives at a precarious moment, with Wall Street projecting above-target inflation in the months ahead and increasingly waffling over whether the cost of the AI boom will pay off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
He never apologised to the fans that paid good money, he shrugged off questions and started waffling.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
“Young is waffling on more than whether or not he wants to eat his Danish, Reggie. Waffling. See what I did there?”
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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