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Recent Examples of sit in
Verb
The Fever came into the game against the Wings with a 10-10 record, sitting in the eight spot in the WNBA standings.—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025 Just days ago, the effort sat in second-to-last place on the 50-spot tally, which ranks the most consumed rock and alternative collections in the country.—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
The protests included a lengthy sit-in at the University Chancellor’s office, and saw four students arrested, alongside one reporter.—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 The following month, factory workers mounted a sit-in that lasted 77 days, which led to violent and fiery clashes with police.—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sit in
Their nominations went to the Senate last week uncontested by the Democratic minority, whose members walked out to protest how Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accelerated a vote on Trump’s most controversial and undeserving choice, Emil Bove III, to join the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
The champion walked out to the Harlem Gospel Ensemble singing his entrance music.
Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
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Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
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Dan Barry,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking.
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Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the Energy Institute’s recent Statistical Review of World Energy 2025, a global report that was once compiled by BP until very recently, did not directly predict a peak, but noted that some regions and nations - especially China - are seeing a slowdown or plateau in oil demand.
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Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, after two consecutive months of spending declines, a 0.1% pullback in April and a 0.9% slowdown in May.
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