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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tergiversation
Noun
  • Jurisdictional role ambiguity adds another layer of complexity.
    Khurram Akhtar, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Critics say ambiguities in the law are part of the problem George Wyeth, a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, says the law is still concerning.
    Michael Copley, NPR, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The shuffle of who would back up franchise catcher Will Smith behind the plate came together quickly, yet signaled a shift that was a long time coming.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • The lucrative shuffle from detox to residential to outpatient to relapse and back again begins.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 14 May 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
Noun
  • The equivocation over the ground invasion reflects Mr. Netanyahu’s need to satisfy far-right cabinet ministers, who are pushing for the full re-occupation of Gaza, and Israel’s top generals, who believe such a move would be difficult to sustain and dangerous to hostages held in Gaza.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The very title of the exhibition, the first Conceptualist project to use photocopy as a medium, signals a deliberate equivocation over nothing less than the ontology of the art object.
    Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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