waffle
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Yet it sits in one of South Carolina’s poorest counties, surrounded by waffle houses, dollar stores and personal injury lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
Sandra: What on earth was that waffle in the post-match interview?
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
Muhammad picks his waffle up like a pizza slice.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
During that stretch, Davis has waffled between hopeless and hopeful on a weekly basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
That came after Rodgers waffled on whether he should make the trip and skip a couple of full days of rehab.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
I sat up and rubbed the waffled pattern the sofa cushion had left on my cheek.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
The judge seemed to be waffling as well.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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