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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
Thus a stance that began with equivocation has progressed to mild disappointment.
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Shashi Tharoor, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2022
This, along with the ICC's decision to indict a Hamas commander—in the same breath as Netanyahu and Gallant—exposes the macabre moral equivocation that so often lurks behind the legal mumbo jumbo of both international organizations.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Whatever happened to honesty in lieu of lies, equivocations or alternative facts?
—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
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Shashi Tharoor, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2022
This, along with the ICC's decision to indict a Hamas commander—in the same breath as Netanyahu and Gallant—exposes the macabre moral equivocation that so often lurks behind the legal mumbo jumbo of both international organizations.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Whatever happened to honesty in lieu of lies, equivocations or alternative facts?
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocation
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The ruling opens the door to discovery on Paramount’s understanding of its deal with WBD and whether the company took fraudulent measures to take advantage of ambiguity in the contract.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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This state of ambiguity often leads to avoidance behavior, where people choose to stick with familiar but less desirable options because the unknown feels riskier.—
Tess Brigham,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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If stuck, players can hit the shuffle button, which will mix up where the words appear on the screen.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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The comprehensive 3-0 victory seemed to get lost in the shuffle in a gameweek when the Rome derby took precedence and the Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia served up thrilling football.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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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 29 Jan. 2025.
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