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After days of conflicting statements and prevaricating, he sent Leavitt out to offer a message that was sure to make everyone mad: He will decide in "two weeks."

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

Following years of prevaricating, Germany pledged to quit nuclear power definitively after Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster sent radiation spewing into the air and terrifying the world.

From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023

In some ways, it’s the opposite of Hamlet, who is prevaricating and trying to figure out what he should do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022

There was no prevaricating; no ifs, ands, or buts; no maybes.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2018

Was not Jacob a mean, prevaricating knave, a crafty, abject cheat?

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh


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