waffle

Anthropic is one frontier operator that gives its model permission to waffle on the sentience question, calling it uncertain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

She’s carrying a half-eaten toaster waffle wrapped in a paper towel.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

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

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

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

“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