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Ultimately, Lisa ends up alone, crying and sitting out by the water, nearly perfectly re-creating that famous photo of Princess Diana on the diving board.
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
His expansive views on Presidential power were rooted in his resistance to the constraints Congress imposed after the Watergate scandal (which Cheney avoided by sitting out the Richard Nixon 1972 campaign).
—Karl Vick, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
And starting quarterback Brock Purdy has sat out five games with a toe injury.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
Kentuckians are sitting out Election Day because of a quirk in the state constitution that gives them a year off once every four years.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
His expansive views on Presidential power were rooted in his resistance to the constraints Congress imposed after the Watergate scandal (which Cheney avoided by sitting out the Richard Nixon 1972 campaign).
—Karl Vick, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
And starting quarterback Brock Purdy has sat out five games with a toe injury.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
Kentuckians are sitting out Election Day because of a quirk in the state constitution that gives them a year off once every four years.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Sit out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20out. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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