stutter
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MacCallum pressed him on campaign finance and high-profile donors, and El-Sayed did not stutter or retreat.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
His nephew Griffin Bremner said he felt the plane stutter and the propellers slow down, then his uncle turned to him and said, “Griffin, we’re cooked!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
There is no strict definition of a stutter, but under Fifa rules, a player is allowed to stop or feint during the run-up as long as they don't do it directly before kicking the ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The audio has a distinctly early-2000s quality to it, reminiscent of the days when incoming calls caused nearby speakers to violently stutter.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
You wouldn’t think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a lad with a stutter and a lisp.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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—European equities were mixed in early trade as a rally in technology stocks stutters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
When China’s economy stutters, one major consumer class keeps spending: the country’s older households.
From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025
Her first interviewee stutters, “Uh, heaven, heaven is, uh, um, let me see.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
As life in Spain and Portugal stutters back to normal, the big questions are not just what went wrong but how to prevent such a full-scale power failure from happening again.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
My breathing stutters, and I reach out a shaking hand to the table to steady myself.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Micron stock has stuttered in recent weeks but Mizuho's Vijay Rakesh is confident it will only be a blip.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I stuttered as a child, so getting me into social situations was hard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
My grandfather Jimmy stuttered until he died at 95.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Chasing 189 to win, England stuttered to 150-8 as questions remain around their batting line-up before the tournament begins in June.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Motion pictures were to be the artwork of the future, a technological breakthrough that stuttered into life just after his death, the first ever moving picture, Louis Le Prince’s Roundhay Garden Scene, dating from 1888.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Given their price tags, the pressure was on both to start delivering after stuttering starts to their individual campaigns.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
After returning from Belgium with three points following their stuttering start, they could go into the extended international break with a fresh perspective.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The outflows have come as Chinese policymakers have struggled to sustain a post-pandemic economic revival, with annual growth slowing, consumption stuttering and property sector debt mounting.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Then researchers at Vanderbilt and Wayne State, drawing on the DNA of more than a million people, published in Nature Genetics the largest genomewide study of stuttering ever conducted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
And do I tell him it’s just “Nate,” and risk stuttering?
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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