lays down

present tense third-person singular of lay down
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays down
Verb
  • However, the laws can’t go into effect until the federal government enacts similar legislation, and both the 2025 versions of the bill fizzled out in a congressional committee.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Commissioners’ closest vote involved the portion of the budget legislation that enacts a less than 1% increase in household trash fees.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Another person declares that Swift must have been swapped out for an AI dupe, because her music was never this vapid before.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The rules have shifted some since they were set out in late 1998, but if a player declares their intention to leave NPB, then MLB teams have a 45-day window to negotiate.
    Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The dress code also specifies the type of shoes to be worn and forbids facial tattoos or more than one facial piercing.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Each recipe is indicated by a code—O means the Four Roses distillery; B or E indicates the mashbill (B is 35 percent rye, E is 20 percent rye); S means straight whiskey; and the last letter specifies the yeast strain, each of which brings a different flavor profile to the whiskey.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In a street vacation, the city relinquishes the right of way or public service easement to an adjacent property owner or owners.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The shutdown will end when Congress passes and Trump signs an appropriations bill to fund the federal departments and agencies currently shut down.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This would happen when the light of distant stars passes through the elusive matter.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Saab asserts that a handful of CDMS batteries could secure hundreds of kilometers of coastline, giving nations a credible maritime strike capability for a fraction of the cost of a surface combatant.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Magee asserts that a judicial settlement conference would be more productive.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That sensory and emotional consistency is what defines a truly strong brand.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Colorado law defines stalking, in part, as when a person knowingly and repeatedly follows, approaches, contacts or communicates with another person in a way that causes that person serious emotional distress.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jadeite, a milky glass material, has an ethereal quality that renders anything being served on that much more special.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Concerns that safe storage renders guns insufficiently accessible during emergencies is valid, experts told CNN in a 2021 report.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Lays down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lays%20down. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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