: marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness
spoke in a halting manner
Examples of halting in a Sentence
She answered in a halting voice.
The baby took a few halting steps.
Progress in the negotiations has been halting.
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In 2019, Intel was forced to release a rare public apology after its halting efforts to make more advanced chips exacerbated shortages and delays of its existing products.
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
The search for a halting five-state Turing machine that performs more than 47,176,870 computational steps remained unsuccessful for several decades.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
Suddenly, my own halting path to conversion was meeting a larger movement.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
But a simmering undercurrent of Democratic uneasiness dramatically boiled over after a shocking debate performance in late June, when a frail and distracted-looking Biden delivered raspy, halting and inarticulate answers versus Trump.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
The search for a halting five-state Turing machine that performs more than 47,176,870 computational steps remained unsuccessful for several decades.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
Suddenly, my own halting path to conversion was meeting a larger movement.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
But a simmering undercurrent of Democratic uneasiness dramatically boiled over after a shocking debate performance in late June, when a frail and distracted-looking Biden delivered raspy, halting and inarticulate answers versus Trump.
—Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Halting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halting. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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halting
adjective
halt·ing
ˈhȯl-tiŋ 
: being unsure or hesitant
spoke in a halting manner
haltingly
adverb
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