: 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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Women 75 and older who are asymptomatic and average-risk, as well as those with limited life expectancy, can discuss with their doctors about halting screening, the ACP added.
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
The judge in the case barred state officials from certifying the election, halting efforts to enact the new congressional map.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2026
In March, Iranian attacks damaged a liquified natural gas plant in Qatar that makes helium, halting production.
—Jordan Novet,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2026
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
The judge in the case barred state officials from certifying the election, halting efforts to enact the new congressional map.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2026
In March, Iranian attacks damaged a liquified natural gas plant in Qatar that makes helium, halting production.
—Jordan Novet,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Halting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halting. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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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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