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Read in English Post Buy Copies Quando um produto realmente resolve o problema do cliente, os usuários rapidamente param de perceber isso.
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Ashok Srivastava, Harvard Business Review, 18 Mar. 2025
The scripts are spiked with sharp showbiz jabs, with inspired riffs on Steve Buscemi’s marketability and the Kool-Aid Man’s, um, genitalia.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
Comedies take longer than dramas to, um, stick, which could explain why streamers are doing fewer half-hour shows and why those shows have a generally higher cancellation rate after a single season.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
So when death eventually came for them, the gods decided—um, for some reason—to turn them into trees.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
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Ashok Srivastava, Harvard Business Review, 18 Mar. 2025
The scripts are spiked with sharp showbiz jabs, with inspired riffs on Steve Buscemi’s marketability and the Kool-Aid Man’s, um, genitalia.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
Comedies take longer than dramas to, um, stick, which could explain why streamers are doing fewer half-hour shows and why those shows have a generally higher cancellation rate after a single season.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
So when death eventually came for them, the gods decided—um, for some reason—to turn them into trees.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Um.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/um. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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um
interjectiona prolonged
m 
sound, əm
—used to express hesitation
well, um, I don't know
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