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as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech
your equivocation when asked where you were last night is not reassuring
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as in ambiguousness
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
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Recent Examples of equivocation
Garnish: There’s some equivocation among the online recipes on lemon vs. orange peel, perhaps because of the sweetness.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 May 2024
Inaction, tolerance, and equivocation leave space for hate, intimidation, and terror.
—Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024
But the script’s equivocations about a diagnosis (the side effect of an experimental drug?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
The external threat of Putin was met head-on and with little equivocation from Ukraine’s coalition of allies.
—James P. Moore Jr., Fortune Europe, 22 Feb. 2024
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 May 2024
Inaction, tolerance, and equivocation leave space for hate, intimidation, and terror.
—Gil Mandelzis, Fortune, 4 May 2024
But the script’s equivocations about a diagnosis (the side effect of an experimental drug?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
The external threat of Putin was met head-on and with little equivocation from Ukraine’s coalition of allies.
—James P. Moore Jr., Fortune Europe, 22 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocation
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However, during a complex scene with a lot of context, complicated wording, and ambiguity about what is going on, more cognitive effort is required.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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Decisive leadership helps combat ambiguity, providing a clear path forward for the rest of the organization.Swapna Sathyan, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Critical but relatively small-dollar projects, such as street intersection adjustments that better serve pedestrians or bus riders, can get lost in the shuffle.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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The senior leadership shuffle continues at the Estée Lauder Cos. After it was revealed that both chief executive officer Fabrizio Freda and chief financial officer Tracey T. Travis plan to retire, another long-term leader at the company is following them.Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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“Equivocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivocation. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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