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as in to hesitate
to show uncertainty about the right course of action
he's still wavering about whether to take the job
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Recent Examples of waver
Malana Vantyler, Sacbee.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Schottenheimer never wavered and Parsons respected that, but the team eventually traded Parsons a week before the start of the season, pushing Schottenheimer into his first crisis as coach.
—Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
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Bristol Myers Squibb shares dropped Thursday despite a solid quarterly beat and guidance raise, as Wall Street’s confidence wavers in the growth trajectory for schizophrenia treatment Cobenfy.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 31 July 2025
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Verb
Nearly three decades later, that mission has never wavered.
—Malana Vantyler, Sacbee.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Schottenheimer never wavered and Parsons respected that, but the team eventually traded Parsons a week before the start of the season, pushing Schottenheimer into his first crisis as coach.
—Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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—Jené Luciani Sena , Caitlyn Martyn
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Bristol Myers Squibb shares dropped Thursday despite a solid quarterly beat and guidance raise, as Wall Street’s confidence wavers in the growth trajectory for schizophrenia treatment Cobenfy.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waver
Verb
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Survey respondents shared multiple ways that unemployment can have a negative impact including cancelling dates for financial reasons and hesitating to even ask someone out at all.—
Gili Malinsky,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2026
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As investors watched closely, even Republicans who hesitated to condemn the probe were careful to extol the virtues of an independent central bank.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that falter under heat, thermal batteries use molten salts as electrolytes, which become ionically conductive only when heated.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Pass protection faltered, the run game stalled and Love couldn’t find a rhythm through the air as Green Bay welcomed Chicago back into the game and the Bears once again took advantage to end their archrival’s season in stunning fashion.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Secret Agent, set in 1977 Brazil, is about living under a military dictatorship, which held sway in Brazil from 1964-1985.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
11 Jan. 2026
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By late 1964, by then under the sway of the Beatles, those musicians were joined by drummer and jazz aficionado Kreutzmann and avant garde bassist Phil Lesh in the rock unit the Warlocks.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The kind of person who trembles at watermarks is not the sort of person who dares to put marble in the dishwasher.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Maine trembled and angled up, then listed to port, throwing him from his chair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The current leading lights in rock are largely admired for their raw earnestness.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Police say a rock was thrown at a school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike on Wednesday, shattering a window and seriously injuring a young child.—
Naveen Dhaliwal,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The crime was not the only one that shook the state over the weekend.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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Isabel initially thought the sounds shaking her surroundings were thunder.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Iran Human Rights Society (IHRS) identified the soldier as Javid Khales, who was arrested during the nationwide protests of 1404, a major wave of anti-regime demonstrations from late 2025 to early 2026 calling for an end to the country’s current dictatorship.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Harvard gutted out the disadvantages, though, staving off wave after wave of Boston University pressure to eventually force overtime.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The dollar is already wobbling against other currencies and has fallen sharply vis-à-vis gold, which is the best barometer of monetary inflation.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Some of the Hoosiers hopped about their Hard Rock Stadium locker room late Monday night, clumps of them doing knee-wobbling dances amidst an air thick with cigar smoke, joy and relief.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Waver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waver. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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