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

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

Awarded a promotion, this biracial woman dithers in writing an online biography to accompany her new job title because she is reluctant to identify herself as Scarlet’s first black department head.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018

Castro breaks into the area but dithers, then seems to stumble before he shoots, and his effort is blocked.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2017

Jack Odin had seen B-47’s come in with a great deal more hubbub and dithers than the Nebula had caused.

From Hunters Out of Space by Kelleam, Joseph Everidge