as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech
like many politicians, he has the gift for tergiversation
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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 -
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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Decision Made After all, that question about full speed ahead or hold your horses has been settled without equivocation.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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This moral equivocation has sent a signal of impunity to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who now openly threatens Armenia's sovereignty.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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