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But the dancer-turned-reality TV star says he's releasing You Thought You Knew after years of hesitation because he does not want his children growing up "feeling like they have to explain who their father is".

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What had looked like hesitation now appeared as resolve guided by timing.

Editor Jacob Schulsinger often allows Hedda a tiny hesitation before she charges ahead ruining people’s lives, long enough to know that she’s considering the consequences.

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Without hesitation, Glaude pantomimes placing his copy under his desk, explaining that he understands this could cost him his job, but he’s willing to pay that price to champion the separation of church and state.

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With Patrick, the insecurity about his identity and his hesitation to share his ethnicity with Kacie McIntosh was uncomfortable to listen to — I do not envy those who actually watched this scene.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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