as in muttering
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as in stuttering
to speak with many pauses and repetitions
He stammers when he's nervous.
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Adjective
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Lu and experts predict that in tighter times, Americans will likely be more hesitant both to buy new clothes and to donate their old ones.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn aren't hesitant to throw down.—
Brianne Tracy,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The reformers worried that change was too halting, and that the Ottomans were falling behind the industrializing European nations.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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The need to pressure-wash the entire interior would become but a minor inconvenience in a halting seven-year project that was filled with challenges before culminating in an elegantly modern interpretation of a historic property.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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From this, and similarly strong but inarticulate reactions, Haidt concluded that the students had arrived at their judgments impulsively.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Fans of high culture should welcome vulgarization in a pinch, the same way that devout Sunday school teachers welcome the untutored, inarticulate, undirected faith of a child.—
Michelle Weber,
Longreads,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Stammering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stammering. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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