reluctantly

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Recent Examples of reluctantly Torres and Knight reluctantly agree to serve as the decoy couple. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025 Editors’ Picks Image ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Michelle Yeoh stars as Philippa Georgiou, a wanted criminal who reluctantly joins an intergalactic spy agency, in this spinoff directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. The New York Times, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Antony becomes United’s first departure of the winter transfer window, while the club would reluctantly consider the sales of academy graduates Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford is also available. Sam Joseph, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025 Naturally, that makes a hero of the last president to pull it off — even if McKinley did so reluctantly and had more than a few regrets before he was assassinated by an anarchist. David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for reluctantly 

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“Reluctantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reluctantly. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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