Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress.
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Women balk, thrusting their children behind them; some try again to escape.
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Biden wanted to make sure the most visible general would not balk.
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Would he really balk at using the protomolecule to further his agenda?
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Or perhaps forever, if he didn't balk at mass executions and torture.
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If asked the courses, I balk after the recital of the soup.
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Governments are likely to balk at such notions, as they always have.
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He might balk if he thought we had any hand in it.
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The Fed has assured markets it won't balk at further policy easing.
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The newspaper said prosecutors appeared to balk at the overtures for leniency.
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Surely it does not become us to balk at a new revelation.
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They do not balk at autos and know no fear of shells.
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I was worried the captains might balk at bombarding a planetary surface.
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So if you wish to measure blades I shall not balk you.
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We could not choose but balk those evil men of their will.
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This was her first intimation that Republicans might balk at enfranchising women.
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She wouldn't balk at it, if he could keep her wanting him.
