as in pretending
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as in weaseling
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
the candidate equivocated as long as he could on controversial issues
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocating
Adjective
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Not his mother’s death but Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinians, the Arabs, the Muslims, the hypocritical leftists.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025 -
That sounds a little hypocritical to me.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The characters are petty, duplicitous, conniving — and also, somehow, strangely sympathetic.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Othello star Jake Gyllenhaal’s backstage home-away-from-home in Broadway’s Barrymore theater is an extension of the Shakespearean world he’s been steeped in while developing his version of Iago, the duplicitous ensign to the titular Venetian army general played by Denzel Washington.—
Charlotte Collins,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the video, a terrified Archie can be seen frozen, staring and shaking.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The Baldwins shame him, but their righteous indignation feels insincere considering Baldwin wasn’t using her name in that footage with detectives.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Even insincere inquiries are generally appreciated.—
Aditi Shrikant,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At least one Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) resolution advisory -- the most serious warning that tells the pilots to take immediate evasive action to avoid a collision -- was triggered per month at Reagan due to proximity to a helicopter from 2011 to 2024, Homendy said.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Chiefs played in the latter country in 2019, but NFL representatives were evasive during Super Bowl week when asked about the next game in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca.—
Jeff Fedotin,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In recent years Ye has taken to sharing controversial political and social beliefs online, often spouting antisemitic screeds on X that valorize the swastika symbol and accusing Jews of being untrustworthy, among other things.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Coal industry executives disown him for being an untrustworthy counterparty.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There are several advanced monitoring components: • Outlier Detection: Flags anomalous predictions that may be unreliable for production use, particularly important given the noisy nature of real-world data.—
Neel Sendas,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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To be sure, these predictions are notoriously unreliable, but the fact remains that Wall Street, which cheered Trump’s election, is losing faith.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Some unscrupulous persons will start to offer debt relief services or sell various sophisticated-sounding transactions to get rid of creditors.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Worse, the law is now being used by unscrupulous lawyers and doctors to stage phony accidents.—
John Faso,
New York Daily News,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Equivocating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivocating. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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