temporize
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Temporize was all he could think of; temporize till he could hit on some expedient for ridding the position of this awkward element which threatened to spoil it.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
Temporize; say that you desire some time to think about the matter.
From The Goose Girl by MacGrath, Harold
"Authorize, disauthorise, and unauthorized; Temporize, contemporise, and extemporize."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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