other words for waited
- await
- delay
- expect
- hang
- linger
- remain
- stand by
- stay
- stick around
- watch
- abide
- anticipate
- bide
- dally
- foresee
- stall
- tarry
- cool it
- fill time
- hang around
- hang onto your hat
- hang out
- hold back
- hold everything
- hold on
- hold the phone
- hole up
- keep shirt on
- lie in wait
- lie low
- look for
- look forward to
- mark time
- put on hold
- save it
- sit tight
- sit up for
- stay up for
- sweat it
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Virginia health officials said Wednesday that the state has abundant testing resources and that wait times have not been long, except at some large community testing events.
Modeling also shows how frequent, repeated antigen testing may be better at preventing outbreaks than highly sensitive PCR tests, if those tests are used infrequently and require long wait times for results.
The latest version of macOS is here, after a seemingly endless wait.
The memory of the 2019 tournament, even if the coronavirus pandemic has caused this to be the longest wait between Masters ever, isn’t distant.
For many voters stuck at home during the pandemic, the wait feels like a wrong turn into purgatory.
In 2017, the agency criticized the division for long wait times for services.
Vanessa Council needed something to take her mind off the unbearable wait for election results, and she decided it would be the chickens that live inside her phone.
Electronic poll books and online access to voter registration systems can streamline the check-in process and reduce waits at the polls.
In your paper, you discuss ways that people become time impoverished because of institutional or bureaucratic things, like wait times for voting, which is of course in the news right now.
As a result, they celebrated their first title in more than 30 years — and the wait for the next could be much, much shorter.
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