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. 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.

2. Barack Obama:

   I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.

3. Heath Boackle:

   He hesitated simply because of what's going on in society right now, we have officers walking on eggshells because of how they're scrutinized in the media.

4. 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.

5. Mayor Pete:

   One of the reasons we're communicating upfront right now is because of lessons learned from members of the community, we've had prior cases of use of force incidents and officer involved shootings where I hesitated, frankly, to get in front of cameras because we didn't know very much, and it was out of our hands.