flip-flopping

present participle of flip-flop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flip-flopping
Verb
  • Marie helps clinch this fight against Godolkin, only after momentarily waffling on the ethics of how to use her powers.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Target was held accountable for waffling on their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • While Abigail Spanberger stood with her running mate Jay Jones and his murderous fantasies, and evaded every direct question including equivocating over men being in locker rooms with girls.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
  • And as politicians, these Supreme Court Justices are especially bristling, equivocating, and entitled, which doesn’t make for trustworthy narration.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kurchenko was also close to Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-leaning Ukrainian president at the time, and was later accused by the succeeding Ukrainian government of systematically evading millions in taxes with the collusion of officials in Yanukovych’s administration.
    Olena Loginova, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • He was arrested on suspicion of evading arrest or detention with a vehicle.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Just two weeks ago, Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi was shaking hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • As the title suggests, this sprawling tale centers on Raja, a man in his sixties who lives with his mother in Beirut, a city shaking with political and ecological turmoil.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Bet-hedging super PACs aren’t offering a coherent policy position for voters to weigh but instead trying to cover all bases in an election.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That’s not Gilligan hedging his bets.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Flip-flopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip-flopping. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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