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Many in the room felt like they were caught in a waiting game, yet few were in the mood to wait.

The nightmare waiting game Charlene and her husband, Robert, now find themselves in began on a night that remains vague at best.

“Kate has played a brilliant waiting game,” says one royal source.

It was now a waiting game, and no one knew what the next few days would bring.

More couples than ever are playing the waiting game, a game that, for women, is something of a gamble.

The Indian is a great hand at playing a waiting game and Yellow Elk was no exception to this rule.

Thus did he first learn how much better than men women play a waiting game.

We could see that it was a waiting game that Don Rafael was playing.

Stenovics's mind excelled in the waiting game, the slow, tortuous approach, the inch-by-inch advance of leisurely diplomacy.

The thought that the tedious waiting game which he had played so long might be ended did not elate him.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to waiting game, such as: cat-and-mouse, lying low, wait-and-see attitude, wait-and-see policy, waiting it out, and watching and waiting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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