haws

verb

present tense third-person singular of haw
as in hems

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  1. hesitates
  2. vacillates
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  • Smear certainly finds Ides of March star Clooney, who never hesitates to put his politics and star power to work, and the rest of the cast stepping into some deep, murky and often digital waters.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Deanna hesitates, still wounded by the estrangement, but opens the house again.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of hesitates
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  • Understandably, Penn struggles to hold these disparate points of focus together with a performance that vacillates between disarmingly dopey and almost willfully ignorant of the realities of the 2000s media landscape.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Our political system vacillates between absurdism and horror.
    — Chloe Benjamain, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of vacillates
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“Haws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haws. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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