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Not even a thunderstorm could stop the New Year's Eve partiers in Times Square from waiting out the ball drop.
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Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
The misguided hope, which many European leaders have held since 2016, that Europe can simply wait out the Trump presidency must be consigned to the dustbin of history.
—Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
Putin will likely still have the resources to sustain his brutal campaign in Ukraine—and perhaps the incentive to wait out the West.
—Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025
These include establishing a border wall and bringing back his Remain in Mexico policy (formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols), which requires asylum seekers at the southern border to wait out their cases outside of the U.S.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
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Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
The misguided hope, which many European leaders have held since 2016, that Europe can simply wait out the Trump presidency must be consigned to the dustbin of history.
—Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2024
Putin will likely still have the resources to sustain his brutal campaign in Ukraine—and perhaps the incentive to wait out the West.
—Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025
These include establishing a border wall and bringing back his Remain in Mexico policy (formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols), which requires asylum seekers at the southern border to wait out their cases outside of the U.S.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Wait out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wait%20out. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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