reluctant
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Appeared in the November 13, 2025, print edition as 'A Reluctant Spy, Entangled Again'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
In 2011, he traveled to India to work as an adviser on Mira Nair’s 2012 film, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” adapted from Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel.
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
Reluctant to break the spell, Remi said nothing.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024
Reluctant and visibly distressed residents allowed a female police officer into their homes to verify the identification of women and children as well.
From Reuters • Nov. 21, 2023
The Flanders and Swann song “The Reluctant Cannibal” tells the story of a young member of a cannibal tribe who refuses his dinner, insisting that “eating people is wrong.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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