waited on
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Other PC and phone makers have already announced price increases to try to offset these rising costs, but Apple has waited on the sidelines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
In fiscal year 2024, the American Immigration Council estimated that asylum-seekers waited on average three and half years before being granted asylum.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026
While Lee waited on word from the mine, she scoured the internet for jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
"You become old when you sit down and expect to be waited on," he told fellow senior actors on the travel show Grandpas over Flowers.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even while my dying professor waited on his front lawn.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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