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hesitating

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verb

present participle of hesitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hesitating
Adjective
  • The Timepiece Arkansas has always been somewhat ambivalent about the use of alcohol.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2025
  • Decades later, even the FBI is ambivalent about whether any of the men successfully reached shore.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Implementation of that reform, including a network consolidation that began last year, has been shaky as the agency sought to streamline mail processing and cut transportation costs.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 12 May 2025
  • Any relocation would be a boost to Puerto Rico’s shaky economy as the government emerges from a historic bankruptcy and continues to struggle with chronic power outages.
    Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • Some chatted among themselves, waiting to understand the meaning behind the invitation Saffold passed out to a select few students only weeks before.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Armando, who was deemed healthy after receiving a treatment for an ear infection, is now one of the dogs waiting for his forever home at the shelter's Rob & Melani Walton Papago Park Campus.
    Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Mother Nature is unpredictable, fickle, random at best.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Even the title feels random: Keiji once bought Fuki a print of Auguste Renoir’s portrait of a child called Irene.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Those examples were everywhere as the team seemed to make a relatively aimless pass through the regular season.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • His goal was to capture that throwback feeling of aimless summer days strolling down the boardwalk with the frozen snack in hand in his Lemon Italian Ice flavor.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Hesitating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hesitating. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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