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

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

“I need to hide my argument,” equivocates Koestenbaum, “or hide from myself its very existence, because random details restore my birthright optimism.”

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

But once again, he equivocates: He admits that he is not certain that a president can pardon himself.

From Slate ● May 21, 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

Per the indictment, when Employee No. 4 equivocated, Nauta repeated the statement insistently and asked, without apparently subtlety, “What are we going to do?”

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2023

At City Hall though, council members and nonprofit officials equivocated.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

Both answers were correct; and it may be here observed that somnambulists, if equivocated with in conversation, or in any way played upon, will express themselves annoyed, and betray angry feelings.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

This was evident throughout Tuesday, with Blanche sparring incessantly with Cohen about his constant media appearances and his seemingly equivocating answers about those appearances.

From Slate ● May 16, 2024

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

Vicentino used an influential 1555 treatise to publish distorted and fabricated accounts of the dispute; it harmed Lusitano’s reputation by portraying him as equivocating and old-fashioned.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

She had made herself too cheap, she had found amusement in encouraging these men, in equivocating, in coquetting with them.

From The Pit by Frank Norris