as in reversal
a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite
the governor's frequent flip-flops would indicate that she has no core beliefs
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Recent Examples of flip-flop
Isabel Garcia, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
And of course when the approach led to absolutely predictable mayhem, Trump, lacking any coherent plan, backtracked, flip-flopped, responding impulsively to the pressures of the moment as his team struggled to keep up.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
America’s policy flip-flops with regards to tariffs has undermined confidence in U.S. assets that has led to a weakening in the U.S. dollar which would typically be a beneficiary of investors looking for safe haven assets.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Will Trump Negotiate Tariffs? 90-Day Pause Issued As These Countries Ask To Bargain
This season, Van Ness should be able to flip-flop spots with fellow defensive end Rashan Gary throughout a game and could draw more favorable matchups.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Amazon has an under-the-radar sale on comfy sandals, slides, and flip-flops right now.
—Isabel Garcia, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
And of course when the approach led to absolutely predictable mayhem, Trump, lacking any coherent plan, backtracked, flip-flopped, responding impulsively to the pressures of the moment as his team struggled to keep up.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
America’s policy flip-flops with regards to tariffs has undermined confidence in U.S. assets that has led to a weakening in the U.S. dollar which would typically be a beneficiary of investors looking for safe haven assets.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
Will Trump Negotiate Tariffs? 90-Day Pause Issued As These Countries Ask To Bargain
This season, Van Ness should be able to flip-flop spots with fellow defensive end Rashan Gary throughout a game and could draw more favorable matchups.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flip-flop
Noun
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In a major reversal, the federal government is restoring the records of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of international students whose entries in a crucial database the government had abruptly terminated in recent weeks, a move that had complicated their ability to stay in the country.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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In a stunning reversal, that gargantuan mammal had caught me.—
Nina E. Cerfolio,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The policy initiatives that emerge, unsurprisingly, have an air of indecision and equivocating.—
Milan Vaishnav,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Nov. 2019
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Critics further condemn equivocating between Israel, as a democracy, and Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization in the U.S., Israel and by the European Union.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
7 Feb. 2025
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Trying to weasel things by providing additional levels is abhorrent.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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But when Douglas doesn’t invite her to the business dinner, the show suddenly takes a turn into wacky sitcom territory, with Maxine trying to weasel her way into Douglas’s business to meet and invite the Prince to the Beach Ball.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2024
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Murdoch, for his part, has also waffled on his views of the president.—
Andrew Kirell,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Social Democratic Party had spent the previous few decades waffling on immigration, sometimes supporting restrictions but mostly favoring expansion.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Most of these are fine goals, and some (such as finally terminating the university’s efforts to evade a Supreme Court–ordered end to its use of race discrimination in admissions) ought to be uncontroversial.—
The Editors,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
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Security scrutinized: Suspect eluded officers protecting Shapiro Balmer started fires while troopers searched Troopers were able to safely evacuate Shapiro's family and others in the mansion, but the fire raises the question of how Balmer was able to evade security.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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In 2023, Turkey experienced one of the world's most deadly quakes, a 7.8 magnitude event that shook southern Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 55,000 people.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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On Tuesday, not so much, the Lakers showing their clear dominance in every area backed by a legendarily springtime loud home crowd that annually shakes, rattles and rolls.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Complacently monopolistic steel and auto companies had entered into mutual suicide pacts with their unions, shunning new and cheaper steel processes and quality-control methods being introduced elsewhere with the short-term goal of saving jobs.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
27 Apr. 2025
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Even children and adolescents express more willingness to shun and punish moral transgressors than people who do something personally obnoxious or offensive but not immoral.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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Japan began hedging its dependence on China in 2010, after Beijing imposed an embargo on exports of crucial rare earth metals to Japan to seek concessions in a territorial dispute.—
River Akira Davis,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Apple has tried to hedge its China risk in recent years, bolstering manufacturing capacity in countries including Vietnam and India.—
Ari Levy,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Flip-flop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip-flop. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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