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while away hours





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We understand you need to be hip and cool, but so many senior citizens while away hours of the day watching your games, but can’t because they don’t stream.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2022

Many of us while away hours on social media — also not a path to happiness.

From New York Times • May 14, 2022

But these weren't the viral clips or pop music videos that most people while away hours on.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2017

Though working through it still requires care and preparation—much as its predigital version would—there’s more than enough in the virtual package to while away hours with your fellow gamers, however far away they may be.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2016

The kids that “1988” chronicles exist in an unhurried world of their own making, streaming past parents in single file to while away hours on each other’s bedroom floors.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2016




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