abstention
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The buffer-zone law passed 44-5, with one abstention.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The Senate voted 46 in favor, 25 against, with one abstention after the lower Chamber of Deputies greenlit the budget.
From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025
As we just reported, 14 voted in favour of the resolution and zero against, with one abstention.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2024
The lawmakers voted 224-196 in the Sejm with one abstention to liberalize access to the hormonal contraceptive, called ellaOne.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
Unfortunately its moral is a moral of—shall I say?—fastidious abstention; a moral it is difficult to appreciate or put into practice, except at an age when passion has lost its fire and its poison.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
Vocabulary lists containing abstention
Vocabulary from the Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, Volume I
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At Last She Stood
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