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

That’s the guts, to claim the permission to love what you love, to be all of the things you are, without having to equivocate or explain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

He doesn't have to explain, equivocate or retreat into the passive voice.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

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

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

When Jacob asks her whether she’s staff — because she seems to have access to locked rooms — or a patient, she equivocates: “Not exactly” is her answer to both questions.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

So it really matters how Facebook equivocates about conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, even if critics can differ on the precise right approach.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2018

“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

Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and the president of Samaritan’s Purse, equivocated.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022

However, many large and influential nations, including some democracies with which the United States has strong relationships, have equivocated.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022

If he had quailed or equivocated, they would have triumphed; if he had boasted or threatened, they would have hanged him.

From Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler by Boggs, John, Elder

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

Veterans of the space community reflected on the 2017 document, conspicuously silent on budgets and timelines, equivocating between excitement and concern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 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

Any of the slightest pretences, any of the most loose, formal, equivocating expressions, would justify us, under the peroration of this piece, in again sending the last or some other Lord Malmesbury to Paris.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund