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abstain

[ab-steyn] / æbˈsteɪn /


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Abstain: The science behind the dreaded red wine headache.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2023

“It wasn’t about Timothy,” the student behind the Abstain campaign told me.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2014

After that nothing but approving votes were heard until Siam's Assemblyman softly murmured "Abstain."

From Time Magazine Archive

Democrats: Abstain Republicans: Abstain Is it possible that Marion Barry is still the mayor of Washington?

From Time Magazine Archive

Abstain," said Mr. Davitt, "from all acts of violence, repel every incentive to outrage.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various




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