He then excused himself as he typed on his iPhone 4, answering a text from his mother.

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Arty excused himself, and bought a hot dog and a jumbo pretzel, which he ate in the car as he drove home.

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William excused himself from homeroom and went to the disinfectant-smelling tiled bathroom.

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's lead director, excused himself for what he expected would be a routine check-in with the Dell chief executive ahead of a quarterly earnings report.

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He conceded that the Bank of England might have been slow to react, but excused himself on the grounds that UK interest rates had still been relatively high.

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