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waffle

[wof-uhl] / ˈwɒf əl /


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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

"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

“You never paid me back when I bought you those waffle cookies. Or when I fronted you money for the helicopter pop-up book.”

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 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

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

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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