as in hedges
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
the polite guest chose to weasel rather than admit that he didn't like the meal
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With a minimal, yet still impactful, pastel floral design, the rug hedges its saccharine design with ample negative space.
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Here is why a phrase buried in a Brussels document should matter to anyone who pays a gas bill or hedges a fuel contract.
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Nothing is as attractive to a skunk as a cozy woodpile or rock pile to den in, says Fyffe, so keeping your yard free from those skunk havens is key.
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The lakeshore bird also faces threats from predators like dogs, coyotes and skunks.
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In the video, the subject ducks his head in the opposite direction of the doorbell camera.
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The sun ducks down and sets Conejo Mountain against warm pinks and purples, transforming the ridgeline into an epic silhouette.
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North Carolina is home to six types of venomous snakes; Germany has two.
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From the desert of Palm Springs to the San Francisco Bay Area, the 800-mile fault line snakes through much of California and has remained relatively calm in recent years.
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And the employee shakes their head and the manager feels really positive.
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And Philip told me that someone shakes his hand.
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That leads into a finish that waffles between praline and dark fruit leather (fig and cherry), in addition to dark tea tannins.
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The star of the show is chef Nick Wong's signature savory scallion waffles with sambal honey butter, but the Taiwanese disco fries, Cheeseburger Fried Rice and the crawfish egg foo young are not to be missed.
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That’s 937 quarts…which equivocates to almost one ton per day.
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The question of who stands against this darkness — and who equivocates — will be determined by civilizational identity.
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Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.
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Lionel Messi rebounds his own miss and dodges three Austrian defenders with a sliding second goal in stoppage time to put the exclamation mark on an historic performance for him and Argentina today in Arlington.
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“Weasels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weasels. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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