RECALL BEFORE REVEAL

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To choose not to participate in or consume something.

verb

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abstain

She decided to abstain from the vote because she had not read the proposal.
Dictionary practice example.
Several members chose to abstain from an optional walking tour because the written plans already answered the questions they needed to examine.
From A Request Reaches the Council.
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