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Recent Examples of haltingly
States have since haltingly rolled out standards for history education, but after 30 years of reform, students’ performance on history exams has slightly declined—just 14 percent are rated proficient.
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Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
Root listens intently and then responds, initially haltingly.
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James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
The game started to percolate here, but only haltingly.
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Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
In O’Sullivan’s story these two come together, however haltingly at first, out of necessity for both just to go on and find a semblance of their lives without Callie.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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.
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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.
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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.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2025
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
Root listens intently and then responds, initially haltingly.
—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
The game started to percolate here, but only haltingly.
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Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
In O’Sullivan’s story these two come together, however haltingly at first, out of necessity for both just to go on and find a semblance of their lives without Callie.
—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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
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
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The many attending assistants around her eventually disperse — a little hesitantly because Sam is in the middle of preparing a new show — and the two withdraw to Sam’s cavernous studio.
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Only the bravest walked hesitantly toward the well.
Adverb
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The trial is tentatively set for August.
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And Sayer, the officials tentatively believe, is associated with an online fandom group of mass killers that has been linked to previous shootings.
Adverb
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Results arrive slowly, so patience matters more than most people expect.
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Production will need to be restarted – slowly, over several weeks – to ensure crude reservoirs don’t collapse, requiring re-drilling and substantial repairs.
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“Haltingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haltingly. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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