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waiting game
noun as in watchful waiting
Example Sentences
“The anxiety comes from the waiting game. We’ve known for four days that this hurricane is coming. I just want to get through it so I can stop feeling this way.”
"As there is no medication you can give for RSV, I felt helpless and it really was a waiting game of whether she would recover," she said.
“I think Russia is playing a waiting game and they’ve had the view that the U.S. and our partners are losing the will to support Ukraine over an extended time,” Ms. Yellen said.
Questions like Callow’s echoed through parent circles Thursday as they’ve now entered an uncomfortable waiting game, worried whether their children will have to move schools.
Immigrant advocates say CBP One is glitch-prone and reduces the right of asylum to a lottery while forcing migrants into a dangerous waiting game.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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