temporize
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Dahlia Lithwick: There is a very human propensity, especially in times of crisis, to normalize and rationalize and temporize.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025
Rab1, and Black is left to temporize as White methodically prepares his breakthrough.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
The jurors did not temporize or attempt to split hairs.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
Petry’s tendency to temporize may be a crucial asset, according to Hajo Funke, an expert on Germany’s far right who has just published a book, “On Angry Citizens and Arsonists,” about the AfD.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
She had only meant to temporize with the King, because she felt sure that that was the only way to serve the Stuart Prince and to avert the treachery.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
In the interim, however, this technology comes to us wrapped in some unprepossessing, temporized designs, like this fat-bellied seal in a plastic waistcoat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
As the Kerry campaign temporized about whether to ignore the slurs or respond to them, the book reached No. 1 on the Times best-seller list.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
But Mr. Richardson is right: She has temporized in response to atrocity.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018
He has brooded, hedged, dodged, vacillated, hesitated, temporized, and mulled.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017
“Ah just had one,” Janie temporized with her conscience.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
It should be said that Andersson enjoys a clear advantage amid all this temporizing, but it takes just one suboptimal move for Black’s strategy to pay off.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
That’s exactly the sort of temporizing that Bolton has described as worse than going to war.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2018
US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.
From Nature ● Feb. 21, 2017
I think that your husband’s temporizing may be a better strategy than outright refusal.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
Our doctors however are not much in the habit of temporizing with their enemies unless they find themselves, too weak to cope with them.
From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Peter Annet
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