as in sputtering
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as in stammering
to speak with many involuntary pauses and repetitions
I used to stutter when I was a child. She stutters when she gets excited.
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Adjective
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On other occasions, the running backs were hesitant in the backfield.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025 -
Employers, however, remained hesitant to add more workers after a hiring spree during the recovery from the pandemic.—
Lucia Mutikani,
USA TODAY,
7 Jan. 2025
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But if the reform process lags and if Bangladesh's sputtering economy doesn't improve, the public's patience could start to wear thin for an administration that for now enjoys ample support.—
Michael Kugelman,
NPR,
21 Dec. 2024
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Those reports have unnerved British officials, who fear the tariffs could throttle the country’s already sputtering economic growth.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In 2019, Intel was forced to release a rare public apology after its halting efforts to make more advanced chips exacerbated shortages and delays of its existing products.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
4 Dec. 2024
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The search for a halting five-state Turing machine that performs more than 47,176,870 computational steps remained unsuccessful for several decades.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
25 July 2024
Adjective
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From this, and similarly strong but inarticulate reactions, Haidt concluded that the students had arrived at their judgments impulsively.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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At the climax of this bizarre collection of movements S… would let out a harsh, inarticulate cry.—
Caitlyn Murphy,
Hazlitt,
13 Nov. 2024
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“Stuttering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuttering. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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