Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hawed
Verb
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Even then, his father, Chris Oettinger, hesitated to believe his Olympic dreams would become a reality — until the roster was announced last month.—
Lia Assimakopoulos
Dallas Stars,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Feb. 2026 -
Asked if this was a statement game, Dahlin hesitated.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Trump has vacillated in his public statements on the deal.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Aaron Peskin, another supervisor who leaned left, said that Newsom vacillated all the way to the end, as if awaiting the arrival of new information.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
Verb
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People shouted over each other as the performers dithered over ideas and raced around the venue.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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Ao Tanaka should not have dithered and conceded the second set-piece so late into injury time, while the backline should have been more alert to the second ball.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The event was put on hold for several minutes as medical professionals tended to Vonn and waited for a helicopter to carry her off the mountain.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Greene, her son, and her parents joined hundreds of others and waited two hours for the monks to pass by.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2026
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Flight operations at two airports -- one in Russia's southern city of Volgograd and the other in the western city of Kaluga -- were temporarily paused, Russia's federal air transport agency said.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2026
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In the photo, the Smiths are on an island beach where the waves have paused at their back.—
Andrew Callahan,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Hawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hawed. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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