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Verb
Both establishments sit in Deep Deuce, a neighborhood with deep roots in African American history and culture.—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 18 June 2025 Ramesh, 40, who sat in the emergency exit row, walked away from the wreckage with only relatively minor injuries.—Colson Thayer, People.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
More than a dozen people were arrested on Monday, including 24 people who were taken into custody during a sit-in outside of Trump Tower, CBS New York reported.—CBS News, 10 June 2025 Where students organize walkouts and sit-ins to fight for a better education.—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sit in
Almost three hours after the vote began, Johnson, Lee, Scott and Lummis walked out of Thune’s office with Vice President Vance and headed to the Senate floor to cast the final votes to advance the bill.
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Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
Hall walks out to applause, welcoming the TamFam, bringing grace and grit to every second of airtime.
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.
When police arrived, the vehicle was unoccupied, but police round the victim and another passenger walking about a block away.
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Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
Byron Buxton #25 of the Minnesota Twins walks to the dugout in the eighth inning of the game against the Seattle Mariners at Target Field on June 23, 2025 in...
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
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has run Japan with just two brief gaps since 1955, is very skilled at pinning economic slowdowns on the BOJ.
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William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
The slowdown in Sin City is in line with what’s going on elsewhere, Hill said.
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