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pausing

adjective as in remaining

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Example Sentences

I’m going to set you up as soon as you get out of here,’” he says, pausing for a moment.

Yet for the past three years she has been given a monthly injection to chemically induce menopause, pausing her periods in an effort to alleviate her symptoms.

From BBC

“I’m not saying to vote for her,” he told people, pausing.

I am pausing to regroup with myself, to try to understand what happened more fully and proceed more capably.

From Salon

He began listing all the different types of Mexican foods, pausing to clarify if I knew what a torta was since it wasn’t common in Korea.

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

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