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waffle

[wof-uhl] / ˈwɒf əl /


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No fog lights grace the front lower corners; the molded blanks in the lower grille look like waffle irons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026

I don’t eat that great, but if you’re ever gonna eat bad, Sunday is the day to do it, so you gotta get the waffle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

"I've never heard so much waffle," Hearn replied.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025

“The last one was so tiny the bars crimped my fur like a waffle iron.”

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

During that stretch, Davis has waffled between hopeless and hopeful on a weekly basis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025

But the Houthis, fearing an inspection might be a prelude to taking the oil, waffled.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

I sat up and rubbed the waffled pattern the sofa cushion had left on my cheek.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

But the new uncertainty arrives at a precarious moment, with Wall Street projecting above-target inflation in the months ahead and increasingly waffling over whether the cost of the AI boom will pay off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

He never apologised to the fans that paid good money, he shrugged off questions and started waffling.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025

The judge seemed to be waffling as well.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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