balked
Example Sentences
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And some Claude users balked at guardrails Anthropic put on its powerful Fable 5 model when it was released in early June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Netflix has faced competition from YouTube and short-form video, and some analysts have wondered whether viewers have balked at price increases.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Past governments have looked at how to reform social care and balked at the potential costs.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Where “Jurassic World” balked at doubling down on its single cruel sequence, “The End of Oak Street” has at least 10 stomach-dropping thrills.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
When the U.N. post was first conferred on him, my grandfather balked: he wanted no part of the corrupt regime.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
