dithers

Example Sentences

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And so even if Congress dithers after today, transparency is coming to platforms one way or another.

From The Verge • May 5, 2022

But he just dithers or pouts or stares at her blankly while the bad guys close in.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The narrator dithers over how much she wants a leadership position in this unofficial hierarchy of casual dismissiveness, earnestness avoidance and radical obsolescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Foster dithers over a clearance, the ball at his feet.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019

And the high brass went into a dither to end all dithers as tapes of the received material reached the Pentagon and were translated into intelligible speech and pictures.

From The Machine That Saved The World by Leinster, Murray