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One notable abstainer is Apple, which has never participated -- preferring to show off new products at its own worldwide events, with the next one taking place on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
“For parents across America,” writer and pickup line abstainer Angie Schmitt wrote last year, “the school car line is a daily punishment.”
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2024
People want to enjoy a zero-proof cocktail — whether always, or just on occasion — with their friends, without standing out as an abstainer.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
But not from one notable abstainer, former President Trump, that self-described “very stable genius.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Like most of us, he had in time cultivated a habit of suspending judgment, a habit of discounting the dreadful efficiency of the new broom, the total abstainer, the college-graduate, and the newly married.
From Command by McFee, William
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