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  • verb Present participle of halter.

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Examples

  • This comes after many years of persistence toward other treatment "cures" with many significant strides forward, but also, unfortunately, some haltering strides as well.

    Julie Chen, M.D.: Do We Have a Functional Cure for HIV Yet? M.D. Julie Chen 2011

  • This comes after many years of persistence toward other treatment "cures" with many significant strides forward, but also, unfortunately, some haltering strides as well.

    Julie Chen, M.D.: Do We Have a Functional Cure for HIV Yet? M.D. Julie Chen 2011

  • Rather than attack animal trading at the surface, Salinas is haltering its demand from the outset.

    Wendy Diamond: Stopping the Amazon Monkey Business! Wendy Diamond 2012

  • Rather than attack animal trading at the surface, Salinas is haltering its demand from the outset.

    Wendy Diamond: Stopping the Amazon Monkey Business! Wendy Diamond 2012

  • Therefore, however hesitant and haltering our strides may be at times, the key is to make sure that those strides continue to confidently move forward for the benefit of future generations to come.

    Julie Chen, M.D.: Do We Have a Functional Cure for HIV Yet? M.D. Julie Chen 2011

  • Therefore, however hesitant and haltering our strides may be at times, the key is to make sure that those strides continue to confidently move forward for the benefit of future generations to come.

    Julie Chen, M.D.: Do We Have a Functional Cure for HIV Yet? M.D. Julie Chen 2011

  • But that traveller had in the meantime gone stealthily round to the back of the homestead, and peering along the pinion-end of the house Roger discerned him unbridling and haltering his horse with his own hands in the shed there.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • It is the opinion of this writer that both approaches to haltering the rampant adventurism of this administration are too little and too late.

    TOO LITTLE TOO LATE 2006

  • At length we stopped for good, long after midnight; and I was rolled up in my cloak and asleep in a most comfortable little sand-grave before Tafas had done knee-haltering my camel.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Margo finally mastered haltering and bridling, moved on to saddling, then spent twenty minutes exercising her hack on a lunge line to learn the difference in its gaits and learned to judge what it took to control a horse from the ground.

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

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