equivocate

Each time, the Fed chose the same posture: assess; equivocate, delay.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

"If he moves toward FX unification that is also a positive. He cannot equivocate."

From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023

The medical community has largely done the same thing: appease and equivocate.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

Ms. Chen was not one to equivocate when pursuing her goals, from academic pursuits to extreme rock climbing.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2021

She refused to equivocate on the issue of school desegregation, and in the Hispanic community she became an important, heroic voice.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The Book of Esther was so welcome this year because it never equivocates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Where he once placed himself firmly on Team Diana, here he equivocates, and only more so as his narrative marches toward the present.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022

Instead the agency equivocates, emphasizing comfort and stating people should “wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022

“It equivocates on what life and death means for the purposes of the criminal law,” Professor Cohen said in an email.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2019

“Horatio, you speak like a philosopher who equivocates truth and falsehood,” I said impatiently.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

But he has equivocated over how to get there, sometimes leaning into the threat of force, other times pushing the diplomacy.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

“I think we’ll try for $2 trillion. I think that’s, like, the best-case outcome,” he equivocated.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2025

Mr. Cameron also equivocated, if only a bit.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

“If settled means that it can’t be re-examined, then that’s one thing,” Alito equivocated.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

"Oh, I hain't goin' but a little ways," lightly equivocated Mrs. Doggett, "jest yonside the covered bridge, and I guess I can hold Big Money to a walk, that fur."

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

Third, political leaders must stop equivocating when antisemitism appears in activist movements, universities or cultural institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

Inside, we shared a 90-minute pocket where Muslim joy didn’t need disclaimers or cautious sidestepping and equivocating.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025

About 40% of lawmakers — nearly equally divided between Democrats and Republicans — surveyed said they didn’t intend to assert a special privilege to withhold their emails and other records, without equivocating.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

When she pressed him on what he meant, Mr. Trump gave an equivocating answer: “Not — not that I can think of.”

From New York Times ● May 11, 2023

They might have nobly effected a complete settlement of Ireland, which a shattered section of this very cabinet was forced a few years after to do partially, and in an equivocating and equivocal manner.

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield