as in sit-down
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Recent Examples of sit in
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
The pressure reading the eye chart Few things get my heart racing like racing to sit in that weird padded chair at one end of the room while trying to read small letters off of a mirror at the other end of the room.
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Matt Reigle Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
17 May 2026
Following the March 2025 Jaffar Express attack, prominent Baloch rights defender Mahrang Baloch was arrested under anti-terrorist laws, while three protesters were shot dead at a peaceful sit-in in Quetta.
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Amira Jadoon,
The Conversation,
13 May 2026
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Verb
Mangione, who sat in between his lawyers and wore a dark blue suit, was quiet throughout the brief hearing and held a folder up in front of his face for most of the time photographers were allowed to take pictures.
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Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
The pressure reading the eye chart Few things get my heart racing like racing to sit in that weird padded chair at one end of the room while trying to read small letters off of a mirror at the other end of the room.
—
Matt Reigle Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Noun
DFLers held a 36-hour sit-in on the House floor Thursday night through late Saturday morning to protest.
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Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
17 May 2026
Following the March 2025 Jaffar Express attack, prominent Baloch rights defender Mahrang Baloch was arrested under anti-terrorist laws, while three protesters were shot dead at a peaceful sit-in in Quetta.
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Amira Jadoon,
The Conversation,
13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit in
Verb
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That meant three rounds of interviews, three onboarding cycles and three rounds of institutional knowledge walking out the door.
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So much has changed in the world since her last match at this tournament and yet everything felt so familiar when the now-44-year-old walked out on court to warm up for her first singles match since the US Open in 2022.
Noun
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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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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
Verb
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Dominic Canzone and Randy Arozarena walked to load the bases with one out before Josh Naylor struck out swinging.
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The 64-year-old had come from Oklahoma with his wife and son to walk up the 56 steps next to Sinking Spring, a sinkhole opening to a karst aquifer from which Lincoln first drank.
Noun
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
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Organized job actions like strikes or sickouts are prohibited by federal law, but since air traffic control staffing is so tight, a small number of employees taking unscheduled time off can be enough to cause problems.
Noun
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That puts more pressure on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and his colleagues, a dissent-happy bunch over the past year, to consider whether a slowdown in jobs or an uptick in inflation is the bigger risk to the economy.
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Michelle Monaghan is making midlife look less like a slowdown and more like a second wind.
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“Sit in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit%20in. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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