temporizing

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a key ally from his new Cabinet, bowing to a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court after days of temporizing.

From Washington Times • Jan. 22, 2023

The downside of Ms. Merkel’s flexibility and compromise has been a certain amount of flip-flopping and temporizing.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2021

So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.

From New York Times • May 2, 2019

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

So long as Do�a Isabella's ear can be kept open to the truth, there is nothing to fear, but Don Ferdinand groweth each day more worldly and temporizing.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore