vacillation
Example Sentences
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Lois’ reticence about him mirrors our own vacillation with the DC Universe’s new direction: We need to see something more from this guy before we commit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
When Lois is in the coma, there is a lot of vacillation between what she’s dealing with in terms of what's going on with the case and the trauma.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024
He quit the leadership of the party in July 2019 after months of vacillation but remains a hugely influential figure within the Congress, a fact that Azad said had stalled any significant internal reforms.
From Reuters • Aug. 26, 2022
Even as Germany was expanding its territories against a backdrop of international vacillation, it was forming political alliances.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Bitter, private jealousies completed the confusion, and the vacillation of the King, who lent an ear now to one, now to another, destroyed all consistency of action.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
Vocabulary lists containing vacillation
"The Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin
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