PAUSING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

pausing

verb

present participle of pause

as in hesitating

to come to a temporary halt in one's activity he paused for a moment to regain his composure

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Recent Examples of pausing The judge decided against pausing the sweep but made clear that the union should be allowed to work alongside city staff and not be held behind a police perimeter, as was the case Tuesday morning. — Brad Hamilton, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 The story was first imagined in 2018 by producers as a movie, before COVID scrambled the film industry pausing the project. — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 The court's majority said the administration is unlikely to win its challenge to Talwani's ruling, and the potential harm in letting the changes proceed are greater than pausing them would be. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 Townsend told reporters Wednesday, pausing for dramatic effect. — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 She’s casually seated on a couch, soft-spoken, and sometimes pausing to search for the right words in English. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 5 Sep. 2026 The Pentagon is pausing guidelines for a controversial policy that has required testosterone testing for service members aged 30 and older, Reuters reports. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026 Customers research, evaluate, and decide across an expanding set of touchpoints, often looping backward or pausing before moving forward. — Harvard Business Review, 4 Sep. 2026 Closing this gap should not mean slowing or pausing every use case. — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pausing

hesitating

Verb

But experts have worried that doctors are hesitating to offer treatment without an ironclad diagnosis, which clinicians say can take time and increase risks to the mother.

— Andrea Suozzo, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026
Fertilizer is often bought months ahead of planting, so hesitating in the fall can mean less goes on the ground in the spring.

— Jayash Paudel, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026