Synonyms for hesitated
hes·i·tat·ed

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1. stuttered

   when someone starts to talk, but then words don’t come out as neatly, which is stuttering.

   she started to stutter when the teacher asked her a question.

   Submitted by lilylovesdixie on August 22, 2020  

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1. List of paraphrases for "hesitated":

   flinched, faltered, paused

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1. Pete Arredondo:

   Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children, we responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat.

2. Ann Romney:

   I hesitated for a very long time, i sort of felt that there are a lot of people that went through things that were much tougher than what I went through.

3. CJ Thomas:

   He'd hesitated in sharing them (his life struggles), telling me that they far from measured up against what I'd dealt with, but I'd assured him that to each of us, our challenges are struggles, real to us without comparison to what anyone else is going through...that through our own lenses, life looks shitty sometimes and we think we'll bend under the weight of it...

4. Susan Silver:

   Every woman I know loves their best friend more than anything, but you don’t necessarily want to have them in your workplace, too, when Rhoda [Valerie Harper] lost her job and there was a position available at the station, Mary kind of hesitated… I think we all have those feelings. I just pitched stories from my own life.

5. Elizabeth Smart:

   Wanda Barzee saw me as Wanda Barzee slave. Wanda Barzee called me Wanda Barzee handmaiden and she never hesitated to let her displeasure with me be known, there were times when, yes, absolutely, Wanda Barzee was manipulated by Brian David Mitchell. But she in Wanda Barzee own right abused me as much as Brian David Mitchell did.