reluctance
Example Sentences
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So you can understand, if not necessarily agree with, their reluctance to drop out and call it a day, in the hope that, just maybe, that proverbial bolt of lightning will strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Given Bale's heights for club and country, you can understand the reluctance to make the comparison.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
With so much at stake in this moment in time, that reluctance looks more like apathy.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Part of the problem is industry reluctance to invest heavily in new production lines without guaranteed long-term government contracts, said Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
She was pleasant and direct, even warm, but there was a privacy about her, a reluctance to bare herself completely to the world, the same quality as Obinze.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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