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abstaining

adjective as in ascetic

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noun as in abstention

noun as in sobriety

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Twelve clubs voted to change the rules, with two abstaining and six voting against the changes.

From BBC

On Monday, Banerjee announced that no action will be taken against protesting doctors for abstaining from work.

From BBC

And only one Labour MP actually explicitly voted against the government, as opposed to abstaining.

From BBC

It is not yet known how many of those were abstaining, as some MPs may have been absent for another reason.

From BBC

A month later, in September, Vance posted on X that “cat ladies…must be stopped” in response to a report that showed that a higher percentage of Americans are abstaining from having children in fear of climate change.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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