temporize
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Dahlia Lithwick: There is a very human propensity, especially in times of crisis, to normalize and rationalize and temporize.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025
Rab1, and Black is left to temporize as White methodically prepares his breakthrough.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
The universities should not temporize if that happens.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017
Petry’s tendency to temporize may be a crucial asset, according to Hajo Funke, an expert on Germany’s far right who has just published a book, “On Angry Citizens and Arsonists,” about the AfD.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
Now Jimmy bethought himself it would be a good plan to temporize with his captor.
From The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Shirley Willing to the Rescue by Carolyn Judson Burnett
In the interim, however, this technology comes to us wrapped in some unprepossessing, temporized designs, like this fat-bellied seal in a plastic waistcoat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Anthony Kennedy, long the Court’s swing vote, has temporized.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2018
But Mr. Richardson is right: She has temporized in response to atrocity.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018
He has brooded, hedged, dodged, vacillated, hesitated, temporized, and mulled.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017
“Ah just had one,” Janie temporized with her conscience.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
It should be said that Andersson enjoys a clear advantage amid all this temporizing, but it takes just one suboptimal move for Black’s strategy to pay off.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2019
That’s exactly the sort of temporizing that Bolton has described as worse than going to war.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2018
US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.
From Nature ● Feb. 21, 2017
Then, as though impatient with his temporizing, "Bah! let me get it over," he muttered, and lifted the glass again, only to set it down once more.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
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