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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
Now is not the time for equivocation or delay.
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Dr. Josh Green, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
There is no equivocation about whether or not Jamie killed Katie.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Your moral equivocation about a deliberate hit to the head is offensive.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
This moral equivocation has sent a signal of impunity to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who now openly threatens Armenia's sovereignty.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for equivocation
Dr. Josh Green, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
There is no equivocation about whether or not Jamie killed Katie.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Your moral equivocation about a deliberate hit to the head is offensive.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
This moral equivocation has sent a signal of impunity to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who now openly threatens Armenia's sovereignty.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for equivocation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivocation
Noun
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Young people lack experience with the awkward pauses of conversation, the ambiguity of social cues, and the grit required to make up with a hurt or angry friend.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
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Poker Face has played fast and loose with how Charlie’s gift actually works, an intentional ambiguity that only gets more complicated with the reveal that actually, yeah, Charlie can be lied to.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
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There was one powerful addition in 2024: retiring U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Aubrey, was appointed to the Rules Committee chairmanship in the shuffle after Granger stepped down as chair.—
Maria Recio,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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However, this trend from businesses has led to an arms race of escalating automation, with candidates using AI to generate interview answers while companies deploy AI to detect them—creating what amounts to machines talking to machines while humans get lost in the shuffle.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 June 2025
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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 18 Jul. 2025.
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