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Examples of hesitance in a Sentence
sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items
she mistook my hesitance to mean I didn't like her poem, but I was trying to come up with appropriate words of praise
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In late August, Trump expressed hesitance about participating in the debate, citing skepticism over ABC serving as the hosting network, USA TODAY reported.
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Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2024
There are disagreements over how much impact widespread land conservation practices could have on slowing particularly large floods, and hesitance over whether enough landowners would voluntarily adopt such practices.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
Boulware’s hesitance has placed the fighters’ attorneys in the counterintuitive position of arguing Johnson is actually a weak case and that Johnson fighters securing a piece of the $335 million deal would be a decisive win.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
This is not unusual for a new modality, but given CMS’s past hesitance, people are trying to read between the lines.
—Mario Aguilar, STAT, 25 July 2024
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Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2024
There are disagreements over how much impact widespread land conservation practices could have on slowing particularly large floods, and hesitance over whether enough landowners would voluntarily adopt such practices.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
Boulware’s hesitance has placed the fighters’ attorneys in the counterintuitive position of arguing Johnson is actually a weak case and that Johnson fighters securing a piece of the $335 million deal would be a decisive win.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
This is not unusual for a new modality, but given CMS’s past hesitance, people are trying to read between the lines.
—Mario Aguilar, STAT, 25 July 2024
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“Hesitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hesitance. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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hesitance
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hes·i·tance
ˈhez-ə-tən(t)s 
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