reluctantly
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It took until 2019, a year before the company went public, for Karp to — reluctantly — add a sales team to the company.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
Evy does reluctantly leave the house — we don’t follow her there — and that one moment says as much about crossed-signals communication as anything else in the movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi reluctantly went along with the plan, dubbed Operation Ajax, though he fled town before its Aug. 15, 1953, launch.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
In 1936 Kertész reluctantly moved to New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The badger looked around as if she could not possibly believe she was being summoned back, but reluctantly resumed her place in the garden beside Clare.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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