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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
equivocate .
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Examples
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Hyland testified he recommended a criminal investigation into the matter but says Rahn "equivocated" suggesting an internal investigation.
13WHAM: Top Stories 2010
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Hyland testified he recommended a criminal investigation into the matter but says Rahn "equivocated" suggesting an internal investigation.
13WHAM: Top Stories 2010
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Oh, and while Clinton might have equivocated in the past voice now and then, Ronald Reagan gave the most famous example of Presidential passive voice in saying saying “mistakes were made” (about Iran-contra).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Given the opportunity to allow blends of up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in gasoline sold for cars and light trucks, EPA equivocated yet again.
Bob Dinneen: EPA's Indecision on Ethanol Blends: Retreating From a Clean Energy Future Bob Dinneen 2010
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It is my total albeit, naive-sounding, to nihilists masquerading as realists belief that there is remedy to this incident; the Iranian government can make this happen without appearing to have equivocated, and frankly, without appearing as anomalous in their imprisonment of artists, because again, history is far too rife with such instances, the world over.
Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists Michael Vazquez 2011
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When the department screwed up, Clifford never equivocated.
Len Levitt: The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love Len Levitt 2010
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"But it is not that that I spoke about," her mother equivocated.
Chapter 19 2010
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Given the opportunity to allow blends of up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in gasoline sold for cars and light trucks, EPA equivocated yet again.
Bob Dinneen: EPA's Indecision on Ethanol Blends: Retreating From a Clean Energy Future Bob Dinneen 2010
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In the Tbilisi and Vilnius cases, Gorbachev equivocated on how deeply he was involved, hesitating to either defend or denounce the attacks.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Given the opportunity to allow blends of up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in gasoline sold for cars and light trucks, EPA equivocated yet again.
Bob Dinneen: EPA's Indecision on Ethanol Blends: Retreating From a Clean Energy Future Bob Dinneen 2010
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