as in abnegation
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Recent Examples of abstention
All 300 assembly members cast their votes for the impeachment bill on Saturday as the bill passed with a total of 204 votes for impeachment, 85 against, 3 abstentions and 8 invalid votes.
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Joohee Cho, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
On Tuesday, Nashville's council voted 30-1, with six abstentions, to approve an aerial encroachment allowing Morgan Wallen's This Bar to construct and install a 20-foot sign.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The vote to dissolve the government, which passed 394 to 207, with 116 abstentions, leaves Europe’s largest economy in the hands of a caretaker government ahead of elections early next year.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The number of lawmakers supporting impeachment was 204, with 85 against, three abstentions and eight invalid ballots.
—Joyce Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Joohee Cho, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
On Tuesday, Nashville's council voted 30-1, with six abstentions, to approve an aerial encroachment allowing Morgan Wallen's This Bar to construct and install a 20-foot sign.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The vote to dissolve the government, which passed 394 to 207, with 116 abstentions, leaves Europe’s largest economy in the hands of a caretaker government ahead of elections early next year.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The number of lawmakers supporting impeachment was 204, with 85 against, three abstentions and eight invalid ballots.
—Joyce Lee, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abstention
Noun
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The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.—
Samantha Eyler,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2017
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Symptoms of this condition can include vivid memories of the fires, nightmares, hypervigilance or avoidance of anything that reminds someone of the event, Alpert said.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
11 Jan. 2025
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Active safety features include a pre-collision warning, automatic emergency braking, plus lane deviation and avoidance.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Jan. 2025
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The most delightful of all mortifications is the idea that life, as Carl Jung said, really does begin at 40.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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That’s when my cheeks started to burn; mortification saturated my body.—
Ariela Gittlen,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Louise tells tales of drunkenness, asceticism, death.—
Hervé Guibert,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Nov. 2024
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And, for a population just one generation removed from near-universal poverty, Western celebrations of India’s mystical asceticism hold little appeal.—
Peter Martin,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Apr. 2015
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Annual income recertification requirements were suspended during the Covid-19 forbearance period, which lasted from March 2020 until September 2023.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In a statement, Newsom’s office said the banks will have a streamlined process that will not require submitting forms or documents and when the forbearance period ends, there will not be an immediate repayment or late fees.—
Melody Gutierrez,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.—
Rabbi Avi Weiss,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Oct. 2024
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The Ford Focus Electric, with its appealing, Euro-hatchback lines, lacks the frumpy feel of self-denial often associated with electric cars.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Mar. 2012
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Rattigan says that frugality and a commitment to lean operations help to keep tuition costs low.—
Kerry McDonald,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Beyond the difficulty with horses, this was part of a republican culture that prized physical ruggedness and frugality and derided pompousness.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Dec. 2024
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Aiming for the cheaper end of the market inevitably means that technology sacrifices have to be made.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2025
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In the decades since her mission, advances in technology have reduced the need for such sacrifices.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Abstention.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abstention. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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