falteringly
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Didi falteringly answers, “Tell him . . . tell him you saw us.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
She puts on her best smooth jazz radio timbre and falteringly reads a script on the history of New York City’s islands with the precision of a PowerPoint presentation.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022
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
That night Emmy Lou asked Papa a question a little falteringly: "Are you a Bohemian?"
From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by Martin, George Madden
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