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The word "hesitation" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a noun that means a pause or delay in acting or speaking, often due to uncertainty or doubt. Example sentence: The job interviewee answered the questions with hesitation, as he was unsure of his qualifications for the position.
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Hesitation
noun
An act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
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All of the big players were in the shake-up, but Nibali took advantage of their hesitation to snatch the stage - and the yellow jersey.
Their exact words, down to each hesitation and repetition, have been faithfully recreated.
I liked being a helpmeet to people who had always helped me out without hesitation, who had coached me as an intellectual and a teacher.
He spent three and a half years at the consultancy Frontier Economics before returning – "without a moment's hesitation" – to run the IFS.
Click here to watch There was a notable absence of rock at this year's Grammys, but thankfully Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor took centre stage for the gnarly closer, performing Copy of A from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, joined on stage by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
Each afternoon gondolas would glide down our picturesque little canal with camera-snapping tourists who had no hesitation including us in their pictures.
When asked what she wants to be when she's older, without hesitation she says, "President of the Republic of Senegal".
But when I ask if Blatter's chief interest in Africa and Asia was weak governance susceptible to bribery and corruption, without hesitation Dyke says, "Yes.
(In recent weeks he's developed a habit of defiantly grunting "Right?" at the end of sentences, as if to suggest that, should his interlocutor persist in doubting him, Mr Miliband will have no hesitation in taking the matter outside)".
Justice Peter Gross told Wright: "In my judgment, on reflection and without hesitation or doubt, this is a case for a whole life order.
"I have no hesitation whatsoever in putting the situation in very specific terms because I believe I have the answer.
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