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as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech
your equivocation when asked where you were last night is not reassuring
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as in ambiguousness
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
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Recent Examples of equivocation
Whatever happened to honesty in lieu of lies, equivocations or alternative facts?
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Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
There is one sort of equivocation that does occur in Snyder’s paintings, and that is especially important to them.
—Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2024
There are plenty of public policies that require some caution and equivocation, but housing construction, especially in transit-rich areas, is not one of them.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
That means October 7 looms, and Asaf’s equivocation lands with the icy crunch of a snowball full of nails lobbed brutally out of the recent past.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
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Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
There is one sort of equivocation that does occur in Snyder’s paintings, and that is especially important to them.
—Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2024
There are plenty of public policies that require some caution and equivocation, but housing construction, especially in transit-rich areas, is not one of them.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2024
That means October 7 looms, and Asaf’s equivocation lands with the icy crunch of a snowball full of nails lobbed brutally out of the recent past.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocation
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Where American Primeval has at least allowed a sliver of ambiguity when portraying whether or not Young was complicit in the massacre’s cover-up until now, there’s none of that here.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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The pleasure mostly derives from picking out the remaining ambiguities, especially related to the film’s flash-forward coda; the finale has already inspired a lot of heated social-media debate over its intention.David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Players can use the shuffle button to mix up the words on the screen if they get stuck.Billie Schwab Dunn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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There may be a shuffle with advertising money and consumer preferences shuffling, but everything is only additive.Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
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“Equivocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivocation. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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