Synonyms for waits
waits

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1. List of paraphrases for "waits":

   awaits, expects, hopes

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1. unknown:

   Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

2. Jerry Parr:

   When he was about probably six or seven feet from the car, I heard these shots, i sort of knew what they were, and I’d been waiting for them all of my career, in a way. That’s what every agent waits for, is that.

3. Horace:

   He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

4. Samuel Pepys:

   I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

5. Catherine Drinker Bowen:

   Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.