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There were already a few signs of the personalities inside, including a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories lying by one bed, a feather serving as a makeshift bookmark.
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
The dog would go out to do business stare at you and poop on the concrete, then go back in and lay by the door my sister should be walking through.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Friday’s finale opens with Coop envisioning himself lying by the pool while Mel and his kids call him to come swimming.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 30 May 2025
And in the last six months, scientific evidence has mounted of self-preserving behavior, deception, hacking, cheating and lying by AI, Bengio says.
—Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 28 May 2025
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
The dog would go out to do business stare at you and poop on the concrete, then go back in and lay by the door my sister should be walking through.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Friday’s finale opens with Coop envisioning himself lying by the pool while Mel and his kids call him to come swimming.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 30 May 2025
And in the last six months, scientific evidence has mounted of self-preserving behavior, deception, hacking, cheating and lying by AI, Bengio says.
—Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 28 May 2025
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“Lie by.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20by. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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