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waver
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  • We will never waver in our commitment to provide the best education possible.
    waver = falter (stop being strong)
  • For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright mirage, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond.  (source)
    wavered = shimmered
  • As he wavered on his weakened legs...  (source)
    wavered = moved back and forth (from weakness or uncertainty)
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  • She wavered from side to side, sometimes her head drooped, and her shoulders were not straight at all.  (source)
    wavered = moving back and forth
  • he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through he water without wavering.  (source)
  • the kids waver, run one way, another, in panic, confusion.  (source)
    waver = are unsure and movie back and forth
  • He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.†  (source)
    unwavering = steady
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwavering means not and reverses the meaning of wavering. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • His huge figure wavers in the wetness of my tears, as if he is somehow underwater.  (source)
    wavers = moving back and forth
  • Slowly she carried herself across the street—head high and eyes fixed unwaveringly on her destination.†  (source)
    unwaveringly = with steadiness
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwaveringly means not and reverses the meaning of waveringly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Who is it!" he demanded, leaning out from the bed so that the light fell waveringly on his face.†  (source)
    waveringly = in a manner that moves back and forth, or is unsure or weak
  • Then they rose to fight the duel, and I followed the swift thrusts and parries of the swords and the waverings of poor Bob as his courage oozed out at his finger ends.†  (source)
  • Perhaps half of them would have come in any case to see Rupert's new house: the waverers had been decided by the reports of Rupert's new wife.†  (source)
  • Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted homesickness clinging to his garments as he could.†  (source)
    waverer = someone who moves back and forth; or is unsure or weak
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