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Rana Khanafer placed pink and blue mini umbrellas into the fruit cups and explained that she has been fasting since she was 9 .

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2022

Bhartiya has been fasting for eleven years against assorted evils, and at the site of his protest he lists some of them on a laminated cardboard sign:

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2019

In brain scans, those centers light up if anyone who has been fasting sees pictures of food.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2015

Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation has been fasting in a bid to secure a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2013

These same remarks will apply with equal force to the horse that for any reason has been fasting for a long time.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.