How to Use equivocation in a Sentence
equivocation
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There is no equivocation about whether or not Jamie killed Katie.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Five years ago, climate change was a top concern in the bloc without equivocation.
—Justin Worland, TIME, 13 May 2024
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If that is resolve, then what would ambivalence and equivocation be?
—Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2020
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Just imagine how costly our timidity and equivocation will prove to be then.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 20 July 2022
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Karen’s frankness is refreshing, in a way, after a night marked by equivocation.
—Will Groff, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2024
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The rest of the statement was full of equally cowardly equivocation.
—Sahar Mustafah august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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Certainly, Palin’s equivocation on big issues can still be brazen.
—T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
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Your moral equivocation about a deliberate hit to the head is offensive.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s equivocation yesterday may be his attempt to steady an economy shaken by the war.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
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Springsteen does not endorse products, and the spot was filmed just a week ago, which perhaps suggests some zero-hour equivocation on his part.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
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Thus a stance that began with equivocation has progressed to mild disappointment.
—Shashi Tharoor, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2022
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In the clarity of her equivocation.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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There was little in the way of equivocation in Carlson’s delivery.
—Washington Post, 26 July 2021
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The equivocation left the door open for political opponents to portray her as a flip-flopper.
—Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
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Wolff’s medical ethics are gibberish to a person of faith, as a politician’s equivocation is nonsense to her.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 June 2023
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There should be no equivocation or the appearance of partiality.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The external threat of Putin was met head-on and with little equivocation from Ukraine’s coalition of allies.
—James P. Moore Jr., Fortune Europe, 22 Feb. 2024
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But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
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The series covers one event in particular that illustrates the outcome of this sort of equivocation.
—Dara Horn, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
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First, that of hypodescent, where one drop of black blood means that an individual is black, without equivocation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2012
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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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After many years of equivocation and handwringing, Arab states have decided to bring Syria in from the cold and back into the fold.
—Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2023
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His brief equivocation about the plan to murder Duncan is delivered with little conviction.
—Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
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But the script’s equivocations about a diagnosis (the side effect of an experimental drug?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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Silence or equivocation in moments like this is itself consequential.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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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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Like most of the directors at Cannes, Baker believes fully, without equivocation, in the feature film and the big screen.
—Jake Coyle, ajc, 4 July 2021
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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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Despite its brevity, and its equivocations, the Times write-up must have roused interest in MTV’s new venture.
—Hazlitt, 4 May 2022
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The natural ensuing thought is that leadership is to be found at all levels, and the past 15 months have demonstrated that without equivocation.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
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