Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flip-flopped
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In January, Meta fired 10 percent of the Reality Labs unit, or about 1,500 employees, and this month waffled on shutting the whole thing down.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Dietary recommendations have waffled over time.—
Tania Fabo,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Mace equivocated, saying Collins would need to reread the quotes to her, which the journalist did.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
10 Dec. 2025
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Anthropic, with its flagship Claude family of AI models, has eschewed products like image and video generation to instead focus scarce computational resources on text and code generation.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
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McDonough and Stewart’s long-brewing relationship, which began when McDonough profiled the singer for The Village Voice in the late eighties, eschewed the formality or distance of a traditional journalist and subject.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Ryanair has hedged roughly 84% of its fuel needs for the current quarter, and Finnair has hedged more than 80% of its first-quarter fuel purchases.—
Scott Campbell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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Finnair, which had hedged over 80% of its first-quarter fuel purchases, warned, however, that even the availability of fuel could be at risk if the conflict dragged on.—
Shivangi Lahiri,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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The ball fell to Ludmila, who evaded her defender and fired a shot toward goal, but the attempt sailed upward.—
Fernando Ramirez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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Cheaply produced one-way Iranian attack drones have successfully evaded billion-dollar air defense systems.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2026
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The snake struck and shook its tail to protect itself, releasing its notorious rattle warning.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
26 Mar. 2026
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The death of Rodarte shook the Northern California town of about 12,000, marking the city’s first officer killed in the line of duty in more than a century.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Graham eventually created a work called Heretic about a nonconformist woman who is shunned by her community.—
Elizabeth Blair,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
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Ryan and his family were shunned by the community.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Flip-flopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip-flopped. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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