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 universities should not temporize if that happens.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2017
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
But nevertheless the cunning rogue thought it safest to temporize, and put his coy mistress off her guard.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
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