Synonym: temporise. Similar words: extemporize, temporal, extempore, temporary, emporium, vaporize, pro tempore, vaporized. Meaning: ['tempəraɪz] 
v. draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time.
v. draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time. 
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1, They are still temporizing in the face of what can only be described as a disaster.
2, 'Not exactly, sir,' temporized Sloan.
3, She would balance and temporize endlessly before reaching a decision.
4, Strategic ambiguity has its uses,(http://sentencedict.com/temporize.html) but a policy of temporizing may eventually fall short.
5, I can't permit you to temporize any longer.
6, Does a good carver temporize to carve his seal?
7, The stalemate allowed Pyongyang to temporize untiltheendofthe Bush administration and set up a new roundofprovocation.
8, EPA had attempted to temporize by allowing California to take " reasonable extra efforts " to comply.
9, Celia had decided long ago she would never temporize on that.
10, As a member of WTO, China should temporize and advance its Greenness building in order to perfect quickly China"s law system of Green barrier."
11, We can find the way out of bureaucracy only when we temporize and manage well the relations between the country and the society and facilitate the progress both.
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