as in hesitation
a state or an instance of temporary inaction about the right course of action
her indecision about where to go for dinner, while everyone was getting hungrier by the minute, was frustrating
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Recent Examples of indecision
Fiennes spends much of The Return wallowing in paralyzing indecision, watching and wondering and waiting, but here, his hesitancy is nothing like Conclave’s Lawrence.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Violence as currency, everything binary and stripped of nuance, uncertainty, indecision.
—Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
The biggest problem against the Rams in the Wild Card game was his indecision.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Ultimately, that indecision set the USWNT up for failure at that World Cup 18 months ago, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Violence as currency, everything binary and stripped of nuance, uncertainty, indecision.
—Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
The biggest problem against the Rams in the Wild Card game was his indecision.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Ultimately, that indecision set the USWNT up for failure at that World Cup 18 months ago, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecision
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The same hesitation existed with computers, the internet, and smartphones.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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TikTok Reacts Jensen's transformation sparked a wave of reactions in the comments section, with viewers split between admiration and hesitation.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Nothing has been said officially in this regard, but perhaps some of the apparent hesitancy of coaches or Concacaf representatives to speak publicly on the matter in the immediate aftermath was based on speculation that the likely true nature of events involved some sort of misunderstanding.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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And Patton’s memorable opening speech hints at the film’s hesitancy about turning men into myths.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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This patience and hesitance to pay up when the market looked good in early trading has served us well so far.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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President-elect Trump is encountering some unlikely openness from Democrats — and hesitance and confusion from Republicans — with his talk of acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
9 Jan. 2025
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How Trump’s trade war could hit your wallet After earlier threats and a last-minute pause in February, President Trump’s North American trade war has begun while the tariff battle with China escalated.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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Reuters reported that a senior USAID official wrote in a March 2 internal memo that a yearlong pause in USAID’s work on health, food and agriculture in the world’s poorest countries would raise malaria deaths by 40%, to between 71,000 and 166,000 annually.—
Christian Ruth,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Indecision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecision. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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