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Recent Examples of haw
Many of the season’s 10 45-minute episodes are dedicated to Jackie hemming and hawing between them.
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Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
No more lengthy hemming and hawing by the pitcher.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
No more lengthy hemming and hawing by the pitcher.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for haw
Verb
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Even so, this may encourage some of us to stop hemming our maxi-dresses and jeans in favor of throwing on a hidden pair of extra-tall platforms.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
17 Feb. 2025
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Yonaguni is part of Okinawa Prefecture and the first island chain, which stretches southward to the Philippines and which Washington considers key to hemming in Chinese forces in the event of a conflict.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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If someone pops up out of the blue, don’t hesitate to connect with them.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2025
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These jets were responsible for Nasrallah's demise, and Israel will not hesitate to strike other Hezbollah leaders as necessary.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Hotter-than-expected inflation data would probably prompt the Fed to wait longer to cut interest rates.—
Carolina Mandl,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The phone system was also set to remind customers of their other support options and to apologize for the long (HP-induced) wait times upon the fifth, 10th, and 13th minute of the call.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In Poland, the capricious degrees and forms of oppression, reflecting Stalin’s murderous personality, fostered a vacillating, self-deceptive kind of surrender by the captive mind, imprisoned not by bars or walls but by its own failures of conviction.—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
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Yet all three novelists also refuse to narrate key moments of violence from the mind of a vacillating protagonist.—
Max Chapnick,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Haw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haw. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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