stonewalling
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stonewalling
Example Sentences
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After stonewalling every adult who tells him to open up, Robby does just that with an orphaned infant, saying that he, too, was abandoned by his mother as a child.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
On Tuesday, Tillis said her responses to the committee amounted to stonewalling.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
But Johnson is really being tied up in knots for his stonewalling over the Jeffrey Epstein files.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025
Elysée officials have told journalists that Macron was frustrated by his repeated attempts to build bridges to Algeria constantly coming to nothing because of Algerian stonewalling.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
“In a word, yes. I’m guessing now, but I think she believes that Branwell is stonewalling, that his silence is just a stubborn refusal to talk about what happened.”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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