waste time
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If reality truly is nothing more than a hallucination, dream or computer screensaver in the brain, why should we waste time disputing it?
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
He didn’t waste time shuffling his executive ranks, often by bringing in people with Walmart experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The idea is not to make teams play with 10 men, but to make it such a clear deterrent that players do not waste time on substitutions.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
I don’t want to waste time with people who live so far away from me.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
I wanted Rufus and Tom Weylin to waste time looking around the plantation for me tomorrow when they realized they hadn’t seen me for a while.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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