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The waits
verb
To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
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The waits are already tremendous.
The waits can sometimes be even longer, others said.
The waits have dropped substantially since the days after the storm, he said.
The waits for the city's children are still typically quite long.
The waits were unpredictable at a Hess station at 44th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan, where the gas line had stretched for 30 blocks over the weekend.
The waits can last days, a week even, and they have added to an air of demoralization that weighs even on officials appointed to mind foreign reporters.
The Waits recipe contains no artificial flavoring, and so no condescension toward the bleary characters who populate his night, threatening, amusing, comforting, sometimes loving.
The waits lasted about 15 minutes.
The waits are monitored and recorded by hospitals themselves.
The waits usually aren't too long, and they're definitely worth it.
The waits were endless.
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