waffle
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"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 just thought, there’s no way someone would want to smell like ice cream and waffle cones all day,” said Anthony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Do you waffle when faced with the choice of will or would?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
But the Houthis, fearing an inspection might be a prelude to taking the oil, waffled.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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
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
After waffling over it late into the night, I fall asleep, still undecided.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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