How to Use on it in a Sentence

on it

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  • Maybe the meat had some spice on it or was processed with a chemical?
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Again, the food was sitting out for a while, and who knows who might have been coughing on it.
    Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • The Chiefs tight end hoped to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Backyard ideas for dogs that keep them cool All that running has a catch, which is heat, and the data on it is blunt.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • It should be noted that this is not about blaming medication or the people who rely on it.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Rather than paper over that skepticism, Brahma built the campaign on it.
    Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For those who like mixing the old with the new, this Santa Monica home has your name on it.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 July 2026
  • After almost a decade of dating, Cristiano Ronaldo put a ring on it.
    Freya Drohan, InStyle, 30 June 2026
  • Cavalli’s response off the field has felt (and will continue to feel) more important than his response on it.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Classical thinkers used it to describe the capacity to feel a powerful impulse and choose not to act on it.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Rumors had circulated the previous year that the couple were engaged, but neither would speak on it.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
  • The group said those funds could be used for more pressing issues like community services, and that’s why the city’s residents should get to vote on it.
    Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • Wiley was sitting in his mother's car when police opened fire on it, Crump said in a statement on June 16.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Although the panel date has not been confirmed, the members and the team behind the webcomic will be on it to chat about their upcoming plans.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • This allows users to understand the logic behind a suggestion before deciding whether to act on it.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
  • The film has a critical take on artificial intelligence, according to three sources briefed on it who declined to be named.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • To have the dissenters hearken back to the 19th century and discourse about voting customs then was inapt, and the justice called them on it.
    John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • Days later, Kelce tried and failed to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it at her Kansas City show, the first domino to fall in the couple’s fabled romance.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 July 2026
  • Act On What Customers Tell You A common mistake is collecting feedback but not acting on it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Then incorporate it into performance reviews, and create structures to compensate for the extra time and emotional energy spent on it.
    Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • If frontline workers aren’t trained to make decisions from real-time data and aren’t measured on it, the infrastructure becomes an expensive decoration.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • True Limoges will have at least two marks on it—a factory mark and a decorating mark—and will sometimes have an import mark identifying the retailer where it was originally sold.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • Doritos, ramen, marshmallows, and frosted cereals; French fries cooked in beef tallow; tofu prepared on a grill that just had meat on it—even the most innocuous products can contain beef, pork, or dairy.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • After a handful of developers tried and failed to fill the property, the Unified Government solicited project proposals to build something new on it.
    Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • The seafaring province of Manabí—which includes Manta and Jaramijó—has in the past two decades been utterly transformed by the drug trade, and by various attempts to crack down on it.
    Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
  • In addition to her famed jersey, Donna shared a photo of herself carrying a custom clear Sheer Gear bag with both boys' numbers and her nickname, Mama Kelce, on it.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • The spacecraft has yet to successfully make it to space and back in one piece, an alarming reality considering NASA’s extremely ambitious timelines that rely on it.
    Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 1 July 2026
  • When an organization detects and responds to a threat, that intelligence is almost never automatically shared with peer organizations in a form that allows those peers to act on it immediately, keeping humans in the loop.
    Anuj Goel, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The Netherlands' Micky van de Ven got his boot on the ball cleanly in the 43rd minute and tried to shoot it high over the head of Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, but Bounou got a glove on it, sending it skyward.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 June 2026
  • That’s if District 3 Commissioner Rolando Escalona’s proposal to amend the city code passes July 9, when the Miami City Commission is slated to vote on it.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

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