sit on
verb
sat on; sitting on; sits on
1
: to hold deliberations concerning
3
: to delay action or decision concerning
4
: to wait or be ready for (a specific pitch) in baseball
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After 15 matches last season, SDFC was 8-4-3, sitting on 27 points with a plus-10 goal differential and already looking less like an expansion team than a Western Conference problem.
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Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
There were people on all the chairs and sitting on the floor in the aisles and even standing at the back, leaning up against the wall.
—Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
Drivers needed affordable, flexible access without ownership, while owners were sitting on depreciating, underused assets.
—Hebron Sher, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Derek Shelton sat on the bench in the visitor’s dugout at PNC Park hours before Friday’s game and was greeted by a horde of local reporters standing in a semi-circle around him ready to take him down memory lane.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
Autobiographies of Dick Van Dyke and the children’s musician Raffi, along with a talking Mister Rogers figurine, sit on bookshelves.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
Brett Favre, Anthony Edwards, Kirill Kaprizov, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Galati sits on the border of Ukraine in Romania’s far southeast.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
These aren’t items sitting on a shelf.
—Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
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Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
There were people on all the chairs and sitting on the floor in the aisles and even standing at the back, leaning up against the wall.
—Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
Drivers needed affordable, flexible access without ownership, while owners were sitting on depreciating, underused assets.
—Hebron Sher, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Derek Shelton sat on the bench in the visitor’s dugout at PNC Park hours before Friday’s game and was greeted by a horde of local reporters standing in a semi-circle around him ready to take him down memory lane.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
Autobiographies of Dick Van Dyke and the children’s musician Raffi, along with a talking Mister Rogers figurine, sit on bookshelves.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
Brett Favre, Anthony Edwards, Kirill Kaprizov, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Galati sits on the border of Ukraine in Romania’s far southeast.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
These aren’t items sitting on a shelf.
—Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
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“Sit on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sit%20on. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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