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Recent Examples of bestirNewspapers can barely bestir themselves to report on the latest inhumanity in Ukraine — the latest bombing of a school, say.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024 Witnesses—from staffers and family members to congresspeople—conjured a muted Commander-in-Chief, who could not bestir himself, as armed rioters stormed the Capitol building, to rise from his seat at the head of the West Wing’s dining-room table and call off the mob.—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022 The New York Times finally bestirred itself to report on Reade’s charges, burying them on page A20 of its Easter Sunday edition.—Nr Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020 If the charges against Bob Kraft are proven to be true, then Goodell should bestir himself to punish the Patriots owner severely, and with something beyond a fine.—Charles P. Pierce, Sports Illustrated, 16 Mar. 2019 Drew Nolan caused his coach, Harry Litwack, to bestir himself from the bench.—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 8 June 2018 Nobody in all his years of coaching at Temple has bestirred Litwack from the bench so often as Drew Nolan.—Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 8 June 2018 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change.—Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change.—Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
The defense, with its framing, wanted to awaken any latent unease that a juror—an older one, perhaps—might feel toward the preceding years of correction between the sexes.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
3 July 2025
What Santana has awakened from the Earth, alongside the continued popular appeal of his art, has stirred other echoes familiar to his incredible career.
In September 2023, the world awoke to the news that someone had deliberately felled the Sycamore Gap tree with a chainsaw.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
The fire department was dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to an apartment building on Barbary Lane after a 32-year-old woman awoke to heavy black smoke, according to a news release.
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