prevarication

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Recent Examples of prevarication This week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a master class in obfuscation, prevarication, and pettiness. John Ficarra, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025 There was no picture, there was no drawing, there has been so many lies, so much prevarication, so much cover up. John Parkinson, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevarication
Noun
  • That’s where Israel’s future lies.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Like many people, she was taken in by his lies.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is the fourth Hammer Frankenstein film but only the third directed by Terence Fisher – after nine years away from the Baron’s experiments, Fisher returns for a gut-punching tale of undesirable outsiders, execution anxiety, and gender-bent possession.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Lane Neely, a park interpreter for Caddo Lake State Park, told USA TODAY that he's heard tales about a lake creature and a ghostly woman.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This would provide 20 two-story units and eight one-story, one-bedroom units.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Prevarication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prevarication. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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