unwilling

Example Sentences

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The answer isn’t that families are unable to give it, or unwilling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

When is difficult to say, but the market seems unwilling to bid these stocks up much higher than current multiples.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Ministers have been mulling it for months but the chancellor is thought to have been unwilling to pay.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

That intervention sent a clear message that the justices were deeply skeptical of the appeals court’s ruling and unwilling to let it blow up the regulator.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2026

He finds nothing to take with him, as he is unwilling to steal a sign, and the only other things out in plain sight are scraps of paper and the occasional smushed piece of popcorn.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern