Thesaurus / stonewall
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They are going to stonewall and drag this process out hoping New Yorkers aren’t paying attention so partisan legislators can draw their own maps.
NEW YORK’S REDISTRICTING TESTS DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO GERRYMANDERINGCOLBY ITKOWITZSEPTEMBER 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLeadership concerns continued to fester that year after the university hired a marketing executive from Michigan State University who state prosecutors say was part of an effort to stonewall an investigation into disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar.
GEORGE WASHINGTON U. PRESIDENT TO LEAVE IN DECEMBER, SOONER THAN PLANNEDLAUREN LUMPKINSEPTEMBER 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYou can’t stonewall the Nets’ offense, so I think it would make more sense to try to cause havoc and force turnovers, and Giannis is one of the best at that in the league.
CAN NETS-BUCKS LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?TONY CHOW (TONY.CHOW@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JUNE 4, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTSanders says he has been stonewalled from receiving vital documents and information that could shed more light, such as police radio transmissions from that day.
MIRIAM CAREY WAS SHOT AT 26 TIMES BY LAW ENFORCEMENT NEAR THE CAPITOL IN 2013. HER SISTER CONTRASTS HER FATE TO THE TREATMENT OF THE JAN. 6 RIOTERS.DAVID MONTGOMERYJANUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHospital officials stonewalled interview requests and refused to answer dozens of questions.
PROPUBLICA WINS TWO NABJ SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE AWARDSBY PROPUBLICADECEMBER 21, 2020PROPUBLICATheir soldiers' confidence in Stonewall Jackson and Lee doubled the effective strength of their armies.
"SHILOH" AS SEEN BY A PRIVATE SOLDIERWARREN OLNEYUp the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONThis abode of the dead is known as the Stonewall Jackson cemetery, in honor of that brave and true-hearted soldier.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAYA. R. WHITEThe rest of the night was spent in retailing for his instruction stories of the ways of Stonewall Jackson.
BLACK ROCKRALPH CONNORAmong them was the brigade that a twelvemonth before won on yonder hill the proud sobriquet of Stonewall.
THE LIFE OF ISAAC INGALLS STEVENS, VOLUME II (OF 2)HAZARD STEVENSWORDS RELATED TO STONEWALL
- baffled
- beat around the bush
- bilked
- circumvented
- confounded
- copped out
- ditched
- dodged
- doubled
- ducked
- eschewed
- evaded
- fled
- flew
- foiled
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- gave the runaround
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- gave wide berth to
- got around
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- hem and haw
- not touched
- outran
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- passed the buck
- passed up
- puzzled
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- shied
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- stalled
- stayed shy of
- steered clear of
- stonewalled
- stumped
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- was beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- blow hot and cold
- cavil
- cloud the issue
- cop a plea
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- cover up
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- double-talk
- elude
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- flip-flop
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- lie
- mince words
- palter
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- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stonewall
- tell white lie
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- weasel
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- casuistry
- coloring
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- cop out
- cover
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- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
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- fib
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- lie
- line
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- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
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- subterfuge
- trick
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- attend
- baby-sit
- bulwark
- chaperon
- chaperone
- conduct
- convoy
- cover
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- defend
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- keep
- keep an eye on
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- look after
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- mind
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- safeguard
- save
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- rides shotguns for
- safeguards
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- stonewalls
- superintends
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- tends
- be noncommittal
- beat around the bush
- blow hot and cold
- cop a plea
- cop out
- duck
- equivocate
- evade
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hem and haw
- jive
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shilly-shally
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stall
- stonewall
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
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