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Paper sellers show hesitation in some pitches (10)

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I believe the answer is:

stationers

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'paper sellers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'hesitation in some pitches' is the wordplay.
'hesitation' becomes 'er' (sound made while hesitating - um, er).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'some pitches' becomes 'stations' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'er' put within 'stations' is 'STATIONERS'.

'show' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for stationers that I've seen is " paper shops".)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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