as in waiting
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Amidst the chaos of scores of league-shaking trades Tuesday, the Minnesota Wild continue to play the waiting game on their big fish, Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin.
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For two fan bases that had already turned parts of South Florida into pregame gathering spots, the scene around Miami Gardens became a waiting game.
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The status of further peace talks and other key details of the current relationship between the warring powers have grown increasingly opaque, with Trump vacillating between resuming saber-rattling rhetoric and indicating Washington’s readiness for additional negotiations with Iran.
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Trump has been more active than ever on social media in his second term, including posting lengthy all-caps screeds offering vacillating updates on the war.
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The point is not indecision, nor contradiction.
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Campos said the late surge likely reflected voter indecision in the gubernatorial primary.
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The book does often feel like a recording of a mental jam session, but there is also a sense of being guided by a kind of hesitating yet urgent voice that needs to get things figured out.
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While their rivals started spending significant sums of money as soon as the 2024-25 season finished, Spurs wasted a couple of weeks hesitating about the long-term future of then head coach Ange Postecoglou before replacing him with Thomas Frank.
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Follow evacuation instructions without delay.
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But with just a 60-day window to finalize a deal, any delay leaves less time to negotiate peace.
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Besides, the rare earth industry is so cost-intensive that Lynas is even dithering on its new Texas facility despite the hundreds of millions secured from the Department of War.
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Neither of them is going to sit around dithering.
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What drives the hesitation is rarely bad code.
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At the center of KeyBanc’s hesitation is Starship, the giant reusable rocket that Musk, the CEO, has described as critical to the future of satellite deployment, deep-space exploration and, eventually, colonization of Mars.
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The roaring bassline slithers beneath a wavering flute note before the floor gives out, and the song begins its fast and furious descent.
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Markets also have been wavering from spates of heavy selling of stocks in companies linked to the boom in artificial intelligence.
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“Hawing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawing. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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