falteringly
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Didi falteringly answers, “Tell him . . . tell him you saw us.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
As we’ve emerged, falteringly at times, many of us have been fortunate to find what we loved, what nourished us, still there — or perhaps finding its way back.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023
Morris replies, falteringly, “I think that Jeffrey’s account is suspect. It really seems internally inconsistent and not entirely believable. Do I believe that means there were no intruders in the house? Maybe.”
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020
Perhaps we are about to see how ideas of due process grew into ideas of rights and liberty, which then, however haltingly or falteringly, made their way into the present.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2013
That night Emmy Lou asked Papa a question a little falteringly: "Are you a Bohemian?"
From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by Martin, George Madden
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