balk
Example Sentences
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Inflows to private funds could dry up in coming months as wealth managers balk at committing client cash to them, given negative headlines about private credit and the ability to buy similar cheaper public funds.
From Barron's
The guidelines were revised in subsequent weeks, but some media organizations balked at the final version in October.
Some Saudi customers are balking at using the benchmark given its volatility, the oil officials said.
Vuitton at first balked at selling the items, he says, but they proved so popular in cheap knockoff form that its hand was forced.
But suppliers balked at contracting with it, because of its history of shaky funding and unreliable sales.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
