haltingly

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Recent Examples of haltingly 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 As the world lost its CO2 blanket over this age of mammals, though, and the world chilled, grasslands, having invented a new form of photosynthesis adapted to this drier, lower-CO2 world, haltingly but inexorably took over much of the Earth. Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025 It’s haltingly played, like a child plucking out the notes, to emphasize John’s deep connection to his daughter. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for haltingly
Adverb
  • 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
  • The clip shows the massive American bully hesitantly backing away from a tiny, energetic puppy.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Meanwhile, San Rafael City Attorney Rob Epstein said Tuesday that the city has tentatively agreed to pay the man Nail arrested, Julio Jimenez Lopez, $999,000 to settle his civil rights lawsuit.
    Cameron Macdonald, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Per the pilot’s script cover posted by Shyamalan, the series appears to be titled (or at least tentatively titled) Magic 8 Ball.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Once Karloff slowly turns, Whale pushes the camera closer and closer to him in a series of cuts that thrust the viewer into the monster’s space — and which reveal the flawlessness of Pierce’s design in unblinking close-ups.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Mark Jerome, who took over the program as executive director three years after the Lorch scandal broke, slowly built Riverside back to respectability between 2005 and 2015.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Haltingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haltingly. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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