dwell
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Mr. Adams doesn’t dwell on such matters, nor does he fret about this music’s meaning in a changed world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I’m sure she would want you to live your best life, and not dwell on the financial aspect of her death.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Huang reserved his sharpest warning for governments that dwell on the technology's risks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
That said, Slater is determined not to dwell on what happened a year ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
One word contained everything he felt, and explained why he was to dwell on this moment later.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Joe Martinez, whose son, Kahlel, has been on the same team for about a year, said Caligiuri rarely dwells on his accomplishments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Ms. Kondo dwells on the kyureki lunisolar calendar, which breaks down our four seasons into six segments, with 24 divisions, or sekki, among them—and even further still into five-day segments known as ko.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
But “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
She sent one of them in her car to the bleak region where Famine dwells to order her to take possession of Erysichthon.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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“The God who once dwelled among His people in this city still calls us in the words of Scripture,” the president said in a speech at Israel’s parliament in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Vance’s most heated points about gender dwelled not on hormones but on LGBTQ+ issues.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024
Players and coaches had been answering the same questions for months, repeating the same refrain about how a defense that dwelled near the bottom of every statistical category last season would be decidedly different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
In an interview, Mr. Heffernan said he had not dwelled on trying to understand what was behind the attack.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
In the evenings Kapugen sang and danced with the old men, and all of their songs and dances were about the sea and the land and the creatures that dwelled there.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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Any single run of the experiment gives only a very rough indication of whether the photon dwelt in the atoms, but averaging millions of runs yields an accurate dwell time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
While Roberts’s report dwelt mostly on historical anecdotes, it contained one concrete sign of the impact of Trump’s signature issue: immigration enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit who dwelt in the waterholes and came out in the evenings when the mists rose, dressed in grey, with white hair and a long tangled beard.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Although the globe's top financiers dwelt little on the conflict, speaking about topics such as artificial intelligence, the economic fallout of war combined with record debts as rates rise created a bleak backdrop.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2023
The peace that passes understanding never dwelt with us.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Mary Duggan said Lion Green Road was a project "about the culture of dwelling"
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Rumination refers to repeatedly dwelling on distressing thoughts, worries, or negative experiences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Aerial images of the dwelling reveal that much of the land has been elegantly manicured, with a sloped driveway leading to the main entrance of the property.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The prospect of their brother’s dwelling being razed fills them with anguish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The woman drove them past downtown Atlanta, with its huge skyscrapers and gleaming gold-domed capitol building, to their new home, a two-bedroom dwelling in Clarkston’s Wyncrest Apartments.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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