wait on

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In the small town of Maniabandha, a two-hour drive from Bhubaneswar, patients wait on plastic chairs.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The two men had to wait on a ledge for hours until they could be found, then had to leave the mountain without their mate.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But the question of whether it made cynical sense to hack the situation’s geopolitics stuck with me: Should people wait on war developments to book their flights?

From Slate • May 12, 2026

Companies now wait on average some 12 years to go public, compared with five in 1999-2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

There was a long wait on cold iron benches.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom