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Adverb
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As Garfield hesitantly moves forward with his campaign, he is forced to align with Chester Arthur (Nick Offerman), who unexpectedly becomes his running mate, and with the domineering but highly influential Senator Roscoe Conkling (Shea Whigham).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025 -
His crossing has often been a source of frustration, sometimes ballooning the ball too often, taking too long to put it into the area or cutting back on himself hesitantly.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Fiona’s neighbors get their own thin plots, broadening but not deepening the world of a show that moves haltingly towards a cliffhanger in its scant, 7-episode first season and so presumably means to continue.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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That test soon divides matter, even for a far from sensitive ear, into what reads well & what reads tamely, haltingly, jerkily, lopsidedly, top-heavily, or otherwise badly.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The actor has spent the first few days of 2026 rotating through her chilly season clothing capsule, and tentatively testing out trends too.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Kansas Department of Transportation’s improvements on I-35 is tentatively set to begin later this year and construction on Santa Fe is scheduled to begin in late 2027.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Falteringly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falteringly. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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