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take time out





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Leadership coach Audrey Hametner has observed that co-CEOs can take time out that sole CEOs might otherwise feel they can't do.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Every six months, McFadden said, she’d need to take time out of her workday to go over her finances in depth with someone over the phone, in order to maintain the exemption.

From MarketWatch Dec. 19, 2025

For them to take time out of their days to take me there, support me there, and help me get to where I am now.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2025

“I’m gonna have to take time out of my work to stand in line and hopefully get this resolved,” the 52-year-old medical practice manager in Canoga Park said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2025

With only a couple of hours of walking ahead of me, and it being hours before dawn, I take time out to look at the mill.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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