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STALL FOR TIME

to create a delay or distraction in order to gain additional time
 STALL FOR TIME
1. My presentation was totally worthless without my slides, so all I could do was stall for time until Mary got the projector working again.
2. He kept talking to stall the criminal for time until the police arrived.


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