falteringly
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Didi falteringly answers, “Tell him . . . tell him you saw us.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
Morris replies, falteringly, “I think that Jeffrey’s account is suspect. It really seems internally inconsistent and not entirely believable. Do I believe that means there were no intruders in the house? Maybe.”
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020
He coordinated Ali’s poignant appearance at the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996, when Ali falteringly lifted a torch to light the Olympic flame.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2016
Gradually, as we work through the central gallery, we see them haltingly, falteringly applied, affecting the enslaved communities at Monticello.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012
But she had often been timid of speech and falteringly insecure of expression.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
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