How to Use hesitancy in a Sentence

hesitancy

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  • And yet the combination of vaccine hesitancy at home, and vaccine inequity abroad, has let the pandemic surge anew and linger, with no end in sight.
    — Kyle Harper, Time, 5 Oct. 2021
  • On Facebook, people swap tips for couching vaccine hesitancy in religious terms.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Much remains unknown though about how mandates will be received in regions of the country with lower vaccination rates and higher levels of hesitancy.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But Gregory is still concerned about Janine’s hesitancy.
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Vaccine hesitancy among Blacks is due to a long history of being used and abused by the medical industry and by the government, so there’s not the same trust as most white people have.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The important thing is to not let fear or hesitancy hold you back.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Gilmore’s hesitancy to shoot has been a problem at times.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Coffey says that hesitancy fails to take into account the voice of voters who are ready to move on from Trump.
    — Nnamdi Egwuonwu, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Brown said the group was extremely close and that her brother expressed his hesitancy over the trip.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There’s still some hesitancy to return because of the virus, but many people have just gotten out of the habit of going.
    — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • Sure sounds like Schumer is playing him, a funny joke about men's hesitancy to seek help.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • One episode of the show, which dropped in May, looks at the origins of vaccine hesitancy in some Black communities.
    — WSJ, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Despite his hesitancy to shoot and pass-first mindset, his teammates love having him on the floor.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2024
  • Auburn coach Hugh Freeze was asked a few questions about this and answers expressed that hesitancy.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 31 May 2023
  • Her hesitancy to share the name may have something to do with the fact that her boyfriend, Travis Scott, is not completely satisfied just yet.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The reason for low uptake stems from vaccine hesitancy and a lack of awareness.
    — Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But some of it is also the hesitancy Woodson spent the offseason trying to break.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The risk of such cases is higher as vaccine-hesitancy increases around the world.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 July 2022
  • But, yes, if there was any hesitancy about including an asset for Mitchell, that now could change.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Betram Roberts has been making the trip to fill her jug for several years now because of her hesitancy to use the city's water.
    — Maya Brown, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But enough nuance to cause hesitancy or confusion on the part of the listener.
    — Blake Snow, WIRED, 5 May 2024
  • The women blamed the church for their hesitancy in going to police about Masterson.
    — Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But his anxious hesitancy is nowhere to be found in Renck’s picture, which requires a stone face of a different kind.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Alberta has some of the highest rates of vaccine hesitancy in the country.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • There will be some who read my hesitancy to answer that question directly as hedging, or a lack of confidence in the premise of the book.
    — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
  • All this defensive attention has bothered Cole, but the hesitancy of the rest of the UConn players to take shots when open is killing the Huskies’ offensive flow.
    — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Billups said Hart is still adjusting to his new teammates, which has led to some shooting hesitancy.
    — oregonlive, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Nevertheless, this failure in the trust fall that comes with learning a new track added some hesitancy.
    — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In part, the buildup comes in response to Germany’s hesitancy in sending weapons to Ukraine, which has unnerved its Eastern neighbors.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Levinson-Katz attributed the hesitancy to the lingering effects of higher rates during the summer and concerns surrounding the upcoming presidential election next month.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2024

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