waffle
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Along with six all-beef hot dogs and six sauces, the $60 tower comes with waffle fries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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've never heard so much waffle," Hearn replied.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
Shakespeare frequently uses violations of decorum for comic effect, as witness Bottom’s muddled attempts at eloquence, Pistol’s braggadocio, and Polonius’s foolish high-sounding waffle.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Haggard waffled over the years on whether the anti-hippie hardliner anthem was a satire of the crew cut set or a genuine tribute to his conservative father.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
I sat up and rubbed the waffled pattern the sofa cushion had left on my cheek.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
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
Mr D'Angelo characterised the brand's response as "waffling".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023
“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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