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1 But she does start to find a voice, especially when she screams at her husband for equivocating over whether to report an honor killing in his family.

2 Film and television personalities have been weighing in on political news since Pharaoh first equivocated to Moses. 

3 Republicans elsewhere contended statements by Democrats were equivocating and inadequate.

4 Aaron gazed meaningfully at Maggie as the names went up, but later acted surprised when she equivocated over Glenn’s fate.

5 "No more equivocating," Jamie says; we must take control of the messaging.

6 At the end of the scene, the novel equivocates further when Lenu defensively protests to Lila, “I was crying because of the bracelet, not because I was scared.”

7 Even the whiff of peace will encourage some Europeans to argue that Mr Putin need not be punished further-just as there were some who used his denials of involvement as a pretext to equivocate.

即便是一丝的和平也会鼓励某些欧洲人指出，普京不必再进一步受罚——正如有人把他对介入的否认当作是推卸责任的借口一样。

8 Quincy Gibson, an assistant professor at the University of North Florida who studies dolphins, equivocated about appearing in “Shark Trek.”

9 That Errol Morris documentary is the most incredible thing you’ve ever seen—he spends the entire time equivocating through every single question.

10 So I think going for a drink with this man, if you find him cute and interesting, isn’t something you need to equivocate over too much.

11 Q. Does Hillary Clinton have a plan to respond to criticism that she equivocates on important issues?

12 I equivocate with the hope of heading off the arguing, the unsolicited assurances about what my body wants and how I should live my life: “You’ll change your mind,” I’m often told.

13 I’m not forgiving the racism of the Muslim ban, the border wall or his equivocating on David Duke.

14 He said he sat with Franci Krizaj, the production’s director, for at least two hours, equivocating over whether to print the poster, or whether to go with a safer, more figurative design.

15 "I thought that to write an honest book would be the greatest tribute; that his spirit would respect it, and that it would come out anyway, so best not to equivocate."

16 But it's not long before she's equivocating, for years, over which man is her real soul mate.

17 But when the conductor Harry Bicket comes to play, as he did on Sunday evening at Zankel Hall, you do not argue or equivocate.

18 This is no fresh-forged mythic hero, but rather a young woman who’s still doubting, still equivocating about her right to seek greatness.

19 “It could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did, maybe he didn’t!” said President Trump, who always equivocates about inconvenient facts.

20 Yet they equivocate in answering one question they pose: “does the value of the artist’s creative gift to the world cancel out the damage he inflicts on his offspring.”

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