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hesitation

[hez-i-tey-shuhn] / ˌhɛz ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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"I think that the hesitation on the part of the Chinese manufacturers is very great," Frank Schwope, an auto industry consultant and lecturer at the FHM Berlin university, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

She told me without hesitation: "It's still Lancashire to me, I know my postcode is Manchester, but I will always live in Lancashire."

From BBC • May 28, 2026

I think it starts from the same thing that inspired my own hesitation to declare the frozen trucker case absurd when I first heard about it.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

“That horrible act was stopped because of the courage and professionalism of law enforcement — the officers who responded without hesitation and did their jobs as they were trained to do,” Blanche said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

But there was as yet no general crisis for the two-spheres theory: the geographers summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to advise on Columbus’s plans had no hesitation in dismissing them out of hand.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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