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Recent Examples of sit
Adele sat down on the sickbed of Betty Parris.
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Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Irizarry rejected that narrative, maintaining the actual vacancy rate sits at 14%, close to countywide rate, and attributing personnel friction to standard management decisions, such as strictly enforcing the county’s return-to-office mandates for public-facing services.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2026
In between the services, some volunteers played cards or sat outside together.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped the charges after Trump won the 2024 election, citing a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 24 May 2026
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Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Irizarry rejected that narrative, maintaining the actual vacancy rate sits at 14%, close to countywide rate, and attributing personnel friction to standard management decisions, such as strictly enforcing the county’s return-to-office mandates for public-facing services.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 24 May 2026
In between the services, some volunteers played cards or sat outside together.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped the charges after Trump won the 2024 election, citing a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 24 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit
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The Experimental Group set the bar in Paris—they've now got several other bars around town and in cities worldwide—so coming to the original might be up there with going to the Louvre for true cocktail lovers.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
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Spanning Fresno, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties, the district has already drawn millions in spending and heavy national attention — setting the stage for another razor-thin, high-dollar general election fight this fall.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Her mother is a short way off and has seated herself on a flattish rock in the shade of an oak tree.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Founders of Avatech’s mentee companies, seated in front of their laptops, clapped and banged their hands on tables to the distinctive stomp-stomp-clap beat of the song as an electric guitar wailed.—
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Last month, the IRGC launched attacks into the Gulf and attempted to lay new underwater mines.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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From a certain perspective, the traps that Ibsen had laid for his characters were hilariously well made, and the one character who got the ghastly humor within the play itself was Hedda.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Not all of the theorizing stands fully upright to scrutiny or time, but that’s sort of beside the point.—
Leander Schaerlaeckens
June 8,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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That ball of twine stands at least 11 feet tall, weighs almost 29,000 pounds and has a circumference of at least 46 feet.—
Staff,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
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From here, squat down and pick up the medicine ball.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2026
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Corvette, particularly, feels outside of it all, as a woman who dreams of being a designer herself but is currently squatting in a closed fast food chicken shop and being haunted by a boulder of debt (like, literally).—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
Verb
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But now a range of companies are putting AI directly into the hands of golfers.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
5 June 2026
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These sell-offs, coupled with the rising import bill due to the surge in global oil prices, have weighed on the Indian rupee, putting it among the worst-performing currencies in Asia.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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That spawned a whole new segment in tourism, one that has since been replicated by other luxury hotel groups and this new adults-only resort.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
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Before tacos spawned $17 brunchtime objets d’art and before Orange County’s dining scene started receiving some of the breathless national attention usually reserved for Los Angeles and San Francisco, Rafael De Anda was making and selling tacos from a truck in Santa Ana.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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Today, there are nearly 100 million people descended from those immigrants, and a visit really brings their story to life.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Then there is the activism at its most mush-brained.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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“Sit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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