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Example sentences for: reluctant

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The last of the Attalid kings, Attalus III, is remembered as something of an eccentric — one of his hobbies was devising new poisons and testing their efficacy on his reluctant slaves.
In general, members were reluctant to share information due to concerns that an inadvertent release of this type of information could damage reputations; lower customer confidence; provide an advantage to competitors; and possibly negatively affect members' businesses and lead to punitive measures against an individual member or a member organization.
CIA managers were reluctant to go ahead with either the telescope or the Predator options.
Today, many professional lexicographers are seen to have axes to grind (because they work for competing publishers) and editors are reluctant to select them as reviewers because, for obvious reasons, they are seeking to publish unbiased reviews.
The media, too, are reluctant to criticize: The last major story to question the Secret Service appeared in the New Republic in January 1981.