abstaining
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The board voted 4-0 to place binding arbitration on the Nov. 3 ballot, with Mitchell abstaining.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
He received a long ovation after getting 132 votes, with no member voting against him and one abstaining, according to the session's presiding member Ismael Diallo.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Senedd members voted to bring in the ban by 39 votes to 10, with two MSs abstaining.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Los Angeles’s city council passed the measure in November by a 12-2 vote, with one member abstaining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
I remember reading about Pythagoras around this time, and finding some of his ideas curiously appealing—wearing white garments, for instance, or abstaining from foods which have a soul.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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