dithers
Example Sentences
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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
But as the company dithers, its users are organizing.
From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2018
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
A result of this visual flatness is that some sequences drag with clichés, as the camera dithers on hackneyed images like Lexi flushing her wedding ring down the motel sink.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2018
But it tends to defeat efficient compression, because the very thing that dithers to reduce moire patterns also tends to work against compression schemes.
From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress
