Take
Wait out
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Tal considers killing Crow (and Crow is clearly considering killing Tal) but both decide it was better to to try to wait out the spell than to take the selfish way out.
Source: Cold Equation -
Deep Sleep: Kohaku enters this after Shuichiro's death, so she can safely wait out the hundred years it will take for his reincarnated soul to return to her.
Source: Manga / Wish -
After the humans chase them off with flamethrowers, the Abbies pretend to leave, then attack the farmers and burn the crops, before gathering a horde outside the wall, likely content to wait out the few months that it will take for the humans to starve to death.
Source: Series / Wayward Pines
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