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Recent Examples of sit
According to a report from commercial real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield, about 38 percent of downtown Oakland office space sat empty in the first quarter of the year.
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Da Lin, CBS News, 4 May 2026
While New York City’s sitting mayor is often a guest at the event, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, will be skipping the affair this year.
—Amina Kilpatrick, NBC news, 4 May 2026
For investors, the $90 to $95 zone, where the two moving averages sit, is your floor.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 4 May 2026
Chelsea sit ninth in the Premier League table, 10 points off the automatic Champions League qualification places, with four games of the season to go.
—Simon Johnson, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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Da Lin, CBS News, 4 May 2026
While New York City’s sitting mayor is often a guest at the event, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, will be skipping the affair this year.
—Amina Kilpatrick, NBC news, 4 May 2026
For investors, the $90 to $95 zone, where the two moving averages sit, is your floor.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 4 May 2026
Chelsea sit ninth in the Premier League table, 10 points off the automatic Champions League qualification places, with four games of the season to go.
—Simon Johnson, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit
Verb
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Carson Kelly hit a one-out single against right-hander Graham Ashcraft, setting the stage for Crow-Armstrong’s blast.—
Andy Martinez,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2026
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The accepted wisdom in yacht design has been that the fastest ocean passages can only be achieved by multihull craft, such as the current crop of Ultim trimarans, which have three hulls in parallel and have set the big records of the past decade.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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The theater seats approximately 1,100 guests.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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This season, the people said, the team is expanding its seating capacity at Gateway Center Arena from 3,500 to 4,000 and will play at least five games at State Farm Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, which seats about 17,000.—
Michael Ozanian,
CNBC,
4 May 2026
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Can college really be laid so bare and survive?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2026
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The Yankees also honored Sterling, their play-by-play man from 1989-2024, with a pregame ceremony that included a video, a moment of silence, and bouquets of flowers, which were laid at home plate by former booth partners Suzyn Waldman and Michael Kay.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
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This moment in history, when Maryland stood almost alone beyond the partisan fray, should make every Marylander proud.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
3 May 2026
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The account, which can be replenished as needed with property tax dollars and federal emergency money, stands at $116 million.—
Nicolas Villamil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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In one version of the game, guests took turns squatting to grab a paper bag or box with their teeth.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
3 May 2026
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To avoid straining, and therefore hemorrhoids, people can prop their feet up on stools or even stacks of old magazines to create more of a squatting position than sitting on toilets typically creates, Qureshi said.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
NBC news,
29 Apr. 2026
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If a drug retails for $100 and a hospital can buy it for $60, then charges the patient or their insurance the full $100 price, the hospital then has $40 to put toward other expenses.—
Dené K. Dryden,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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Neto expanded and was able to put a ball into right field.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2026
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The news that Supriya Ganesh won’t be returning for The Pitt’s third season could spawn a wave of goodwill among Emmy voters, though that didn’t do much for Tracy Ifeachor’s chances last season.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 May 2026
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The original film grossed over $591 million worldwide and spawned a Disney Channel series.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
1 May 2026
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But there was something delightful about how each new director built on the original formula.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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There are ways of using social media as just a private photo album or a diary, but it is designed to be public and for content to spread beyond its context.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Sit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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