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waste time
Example Sentences
She did not waste time in naming a new England captain when she took over, handing the armband to Leah Williamson and leaving Steph Houghton out of her squad for Euro 2022.
Trump did not waste time, quickly nominating Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, to the post instead.
“People lose sleep, people waste time, anxiety can raise people’s blood pressure, it affects people’s relationships — there’s all sorts of things,” he said.
Why try out and waste time, Rambis thought, when he could just return to his team in Greece and carve out a career in Europe.
Jokinen elaborates: "Consider a computer error during a critical task. This event is assessed by the user's cognition as being counterproductive. An inexperienced user might react with anxiety and fear due to uncertainty on how to resolve the error, whereas an experienced user might feel irritation, annoyed at having to waste time resolving the issue. Our model predicts the user's emotional response by simulating this cognitive evaluation process."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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