haws

present tense third-person singular of haw

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haws
Verb
  • Hassan hesitates over an undercooked backpass, Haaland smells blood, and Iraq are toast.
    Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Yet the same board that will fund AI transformation, wellness apps, psychometrics, dashboards and catered offsites often still hesitates to fund serious executive coaching for the people making the highest-risk decisions in the company.
    ByDr. Corrie Block, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • In general, game-to-game data vacillates pretty wildly.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 2 June 2026
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“Haws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haws. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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