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as in endured
to put up with (something painful or difficult)
I don't know how you can stand that job
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as in paid
to give what is owed for
I'll stand lunch, and you can pay me back later
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as in was
to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes
if the city's baseball team wins today, they will stand first in the league
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Recent Examples of stood
On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
By the start of the new millennium, with China only beginning its rise, there stood just a single superpower in the world.
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
3 July 2026
In central Tehran overnight, a crowd stood sobbing and chanting, led by a Basij member, as others handed out posters of the late Khamenei.
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Parisa Hafezi,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
In the tent between the departments’ and the states’ booths, a few people stood studying a CSPAN American-history time line, with a stand about Micron chips to one side and a John Deere model to the other.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
3 July 2026
Swift stood with her best friend as a bridesmaid when Anderson married her first husband, photographer Matt Lucier, in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2017.
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Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
That figure overtakes the attendance record that has stood since 1995 and places Silverstone ahead of major global race weekends including Melbourne, Austin and Miami.
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Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
In the following two years, officials project thousands of additional job reductions in a workforce that this year stood at 83,000.
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Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Mother stood apart from other vegetarian and vegan places in that Venditti only used whole ingredients, no alt foods.
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Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
24 June 2026
ABC News,
3 July 2026
By the start of the new millennium, with China only beginning its rise, there stood just a single superpower in the world.
—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
3 July 2026
In central Tehran overnight, a crowd stood sobbing and chanting, led by a Basij member, as others handed out posters of the late Khamenei.
—
Parisa Hafezi,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
In the tent between the departments’ and the states’ booths, a few people stood studying a CSPAN American-history time line, with a stand about Micron chips to one side and a John Deere model to the other.
—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
3 July 2026
Swift stood with her best friend as a bridesmaid when Anderson married her first husband, photographer Matt Lucier, in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2017.
—
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
That figure overtakes the attendance record that has stood since 1995 and places Silverstone ahead of major global race weekends including Melbourne, Austin and Miami.
—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
In the following two years, officials project thousands of additional job reductions in a workforce that this year stood at 83,000.
—
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Mother stood apart from other vegetarian and vegan places in that Venditti only used whole ingredients, no alt foods.
—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stood
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Levi Jones, a 33-year-old business owner, pulled up to Sacred Eye Tattoos in Hollywood last week and sat for eight hours getting a photorealistic black-and-white portrait of Mangione on his leg.
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The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.
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To complete the stunt, the actor endured 16 hours of intensive helicopter training every day for more than a month in order to pull off the scene's difficult maneuvers and climactic downward spiral, per the Los Angeles Times.
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Kohn and Warsh’s partnership endured the era’s enormous pressure.
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If the estate has sufficient assets after higher-priority expenses, such as certain taxes, administrative costs and funeral expenses, qualifying debts may be paid before any remaining assets are distributed to heirs.
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Amid news of his death, the official Instagram page for Flackstock, a festival created in honor of Caroline Flack, paid tribute to Paul Flack.
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The ruling did not address whether there was enough cause to remove Cook, based on the fraud allegations brought forth by the administration.
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Police said, according to WBNS, that there was a history of domestic violence in the relationship, and it is believed to be the cause of Creech's death.
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Manaker mentions that calcium bisglycinate is a chelated form that tends to be well tolerated, even among people who’ve had difficulty with other types.
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In clinics in Boston and California, the drug was well tolerated.
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Bat met ball and, under his breath, Astros manager Joe Espada muttered an expletive.
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Her post and subsequent comment were met by a flood of support from fans and commenters.
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MoneyLion ranked the nation's 50 most affluent suburbs by household income, as measured in the 2024 American Community Survey.
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Sherman’s March, which won the Grand Jury prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, was ranked as one of the highest-grossing documentary films of all time until the mid-1990s.
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On Friday, Pope Leo formally accepted the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center, a non-partisan non-profit located across from Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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Reuters Calling on America to recommit itself to its founding principles of unity and peace at home and abroad, Pope Leo XIV accepted the Liberty Medal on Friday during a ceremony at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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“Stood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stood. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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