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abeyance
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    The house where she and her nine siblings were raised on 15th Street, Southeast, has been in abeyance during the two years since their father died, leaving no will, and Butch moved in.†  (source)
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    It was as if a vast store of energy had been held inside her, bounding about in a terribly long, great waiting, such an abeyance really being the most lovely thing to me, and harrowing as well.†  (source)
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    It is assumed that Mrs. Nakane would not desire to come forward alone, leaving the child in Japan, and therefore it can only be suggested that the matter of her return be left in abeyance until such time in the future as there may be a change in the regulations respecting admission of Japanese nationals which would enable the Department to deal with the application of the child.†  (source)
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    The unnatural pallor of the moonlight seemed to dissolve the differences of their faces and to stress the quality they all had in common: a look of cautious appraisal, part fear, part plea, part impertinence held in abeyance.†  (source)
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    With loneliness in abeyance and with my creative juices in full flow, I could not have been happier ... I could not have been happier, that is, until there came a bad sequence of events which intruded themselves on my well-being and made me realize how desperately at odds Sophie and Nathan had been (and still were) with each other, how unsimulated had been that quality in Sophie of foreboding and fright, together with the hints she had let fall of bitter discord.†  (source)
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    Not until then, still numbed and with his powers of reason almost in abeyance, did he remember his camera.†  (source)
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    You have put many things in abeyance to win a war.†  (source)
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    Nowadays the military profession is in abeyance and the magisterial robe is the badge of honor.†  (source)
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    For this reason, I suppose, they were now inflexible with one another; Mr. Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.†  (source)
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    Who knows what forces or plots he may have kept in abeyance while he tried to gain hold of us?†  (source)
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    Sometimes I wasn't sure whether she could add the next word, her throat kept so many other sounds back, in abeyance.†  (source)
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    Anyway, Henry waited four years, holding the three of them in that abeyance, that durance, waiting, hoping, for Bon to renounce the woman and dissolve the marriage which he (Henry) admitted was no marriage, and which he must have known as soon as he saw the woman and the child that Bon would not renounce.†  (source)
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    The animacy of life hung in abeyance.†  (source)
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