as in ambivalent
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as in faltering
to show uncertainty about the right course of action
I didn't hesitate to tell them that what they were doing was wrong and that I wanted no part of it
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hesitating
Adjective
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With good reason, many European governments fear that the Trump administration is fundamentally ambivalent about the course of the war.—
Jack Watling,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Thousands of actors have tackled the Bard's most tragic and ambivalent hero, but Laurence Olivier's eerie, atmospheric adaptation — the first major non-silent film version — makes the 400-year-old prince of Denmark seem devastatingly real.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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As July turned to August in 2021, Ian Happ’s long-term future with the Chicago Cubs was in on shaky ground as a terrible first half saw his playing time reduced to coming off the bench for stretches.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, smartphone feature upgrades have become more incremental, and in a shaky economy, people will be more than willing to hold on to their devices for just a bit longer.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Some chatted among themselves, waiting to understand the meaning behind the invitation Saffold passed out to a select few students only weeks before.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
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Armando, who was deemed healthy after receiving a treatment for an ear infection, is now one of the dogs waiting for his forever home at the shelter's Rob & Melani Walton Papago Park Campus.—
Karen Bartunek,
The Arizona Republic,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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And because new keys can be made only through random mutation, the odds of obtaining all the right ones are very slim.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Cooper Josephine: This started in [Montreal’s] Lafontaine Park when I was scouted by a random person with a clipboard.—
James Factora,
Them.,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Why should the taxpayers subsidize the learning of agglutinative grammars by an aimless young woman who became an administrator and then left the nine-to-five workforce to become a novelist?—
Lydia Kiesling,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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And his impulse was to build a show that felt purposely aimless.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Hesitating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hesitating. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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