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hesitancy

[hez-i-tuhn-see] / ˈhɛz ɪ tən si /


NOUN
delay
Synonyms


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"Vaccine hesitancy should not simply be understood as a lack of scientific knowledge among the public," Daniel Fritz Silvallana, a health communication researcher at Deakin University, Australia, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“You need to accept that you made a mistake, and it’s not very pleasant,” he said to explain the hesitancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

They allowed United no time to settle, pressing from the front and taking advantage of the visitors' hesitancy in possession.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

In interviews with KFF Health News, six doctors shared insights on this new era of vaccine hesitancy — and what could be done to turn the situation around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

But Burnside was a stubborn man, determined perhaps to show action and confidence where McClellan had shown hesitancy and uncertainty.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Many medical professionals, like experts at Seattle’s Glow Medispa, are now working even harder to clear up misinformation and to assuage common hesitancies.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

Public life has been gripped by a sense we won’t go back to what we did before, thanks to health hesitancies or simply because we got used to doing things a new way during shutdowns.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

"There’s different kinds of hesitancies, right? So I don’t think that there’s much excuse to not know the information available anymore. Hence that’s why I think it should be mandatory at this stage," he explained.

From Fox News ● Aug. 11, 2021

He’s never dated a friend before and still wants to pursue this, but he mentioned telling all his friends about his hesitancies.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2018

But as speech clarifies thought, the very course of maintaining his new argument strengthened him in it, and his fears and hesitancies vanished.

From Thirty by Howard Vincent O'Brien


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