stuttering

Example Sentences

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Policymakers have held rates steady for five consecutive meetings, monitoring falling inflation and a stuttering domestic economy, while highlighting their vigilance of global uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The government has since slashed its stuttering growth forecast for this year and business confidence hit a six-year low this month.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

AFP met Eric, from Togo, on the stairs while he was chatting -- in stuttering Russian -- with a Nigerian and Chinese inmate.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

But it did it very slowly, rolling around on wheels in a stuttering movement.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

He’d always had that effect on me, filling me with dizzying exhilaration one moment, then sending me into a nervous, stuttering panic the next.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros