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Recent Examples of equivocation There is no equivocation about whether or not Jamie killed Katie. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 Your moral equivocation about a deliberate hit to the head is offensive. Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025 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 The debate has pitted New York mayor, Eric Adams, who has condemned the murder without equivocation, against a significant groundswell of support for the alleged murderer. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for equivocation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocation
Noun
  • But the resulting ambiguity can fuel tensions as well.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
  • The divide between the sexes seems to be widening, with many individuals reluctant to find themselves in the gray area in between, where ambiguity could lead to criticism or social ostracism.
    Jerry Colonna, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • There was one powerful addition in 2024: retiring U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Aubrey, was appointed to the Rules Committee chairmanship in the shuffle after Granger stepped down as chair.
    Maria Recio, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • However, this trend from businesses has led to an arms race of escalating automation, with candidates using AI to generate interview answers while companies deploy AI to detect them—creating what amounts to machines talking to machines while humans get lost in the shuffle.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 10 Jul. 2025.

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