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sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items
she mistook my hesitance to mean I didn't like her poem, but I was trying to come up with appropriate words of praise
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Edwards is not a natural lob thrower, and his hesitance to throw the ball to Gobert in traffic put a ceiling on the Timberwolves offense.
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Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Apr. 2024
This hesitance came courtesy of Putin, who attended the Bucharest conference and lobbied NATO to reject Kyiv’s bid.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2023
Sahar Abi-Hassan, an assistant professor in political science at Northeastern University who studies the behavior of the Supreme Court, says the court might side with TikTok for several reasons, including its historical hesitance toward restricting speech.
—Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2025
Still, Zhu’s hesitance to speak about Shein’s exposure to Xinjiang at the hearing might have been born of pragmatic reasons, or perhaps even strategic ones.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
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Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Apr. 2024
This hesitance came courtesy of Putin, who attended the Bucharest conference and lobbied NATO to reject Kyiv’s bid.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2023
Sahar Abi-Hassan, an assistant professor in political science at Northeastern University who studies the behavior of the Supreme Court, says the court might side with TikTok for several reasons, including its historical hesitance toward restricting speech.
—Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2025
Still, Zhu’s hesitance to speak about Shein’s exposure to Xinjiang at the hearing might have been born of pragmatic reasons, or perhaps even strategic ones.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Hesitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hesitance. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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hesitance
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hes·i·tance
ˈhez-ə-tən(t)s 
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