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halting

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noun

halting

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verb (1)

present participle of halt
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halting

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verb (2)

present participle of halt

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of halting
Adjective
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 Sustainability The Big Story Nuclear industry tiptoes toward renaissance Step by halting step, the U.S. nuclear industry is advancing. Saul Elbein, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
Zverev had advanced on Friday after Novak Djokovic retired one set into their semifinal due to injury — halting his quest for a record 25th grand slam title. Andrew Torgan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025 Zverev had advanced on Friday after Novak Djokovic retired one set into their semifinal due to injury — halting his quest for a record 25th grand slam title. Andrew Torgan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for halting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halting
Adjective
  • This phenomenon has been further propelled by ongoing inflation, high interest rates, and an uncertain economic outlook.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • In the early, uncertain days of COVID-19, when people were told to stay home to save lives, Lightfoot chose compassion over citations.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Following the faith’s core beliefs in nonviolence and justice, Quakers have demonstrated for the abolition of slavery, in favor of the suffrage movement, against both World Wars, and the U.S. roles in the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, said Ross Brubeck, 38, one of the Quaker march organizers.
    Luis Andres Henao, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Last month, Musk took to his social media platform X to seemingly express support for the abolition of intellectual property laws.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • The situation is impossible, irresolute— the B.J. Vineses and priests of the world shouldn’t get to walk away scot free.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The prevailing sense among investors and market handicappers entering the month was to expect choppy, irresolute action full of potential scares.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Cheers finale carves out happy endings for several of its cast members.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 21 May 2025
  • My ending was harmonizing the situation of the movie, that the family is coming together at the end, and Laura is part of the family and wants to go back to the family.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • According to Priestley, many young people reach adulthood unsure about how money functions, how relationships grow and how systems interact.
    Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Officials are unsure of where exactly Cosmos 482 will land.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps, the uneasily ambivalent final moments of this movie lead us to wonder, because the pastor couldn’t think of anywhere else to go.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Adichie’s protagonists are independent and deeply ambivalent, not so much aloof as detached, both from their love interests and from their own desires and aspirations.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The transaction could generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trump family, further raising concerns about the president’s conflicted relationship with crypto.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The commercial pressures to pad may have played a part; so, too, might Twain’s own conflicted relationship with America’s unresolved promises.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • No longer the beloved Renaissance prince of his youth, Henry was, by his mid-40s, an increasingly infirm and mercurial monarch who had few qualms about sending his closest companions—among them the aforementioned Thomas More—to the executioner’s block.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • They’re designed for Americans that are struggling, that are below the poverty line, or that are infirm, that can’t work and afford health care.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Halting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halting. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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