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South-west England and eastern Wales could hit 25C, while northern England will sit around the low 20s Celsius.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
I’ll sit with her for like two hours while life is happening, watching the roller skaters, the families, the cool outfits, the riffraff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Often times, data centers need to sit close to power substations and fiber lines, which often means edging up against suburbs and exurbs where people already live.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Uber’s own cuts are aimed at “broadening manager scopes” and cutting the number of people who sit seven or more layers from the CEO by 20%, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wrote to employees Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I sit back down on the sofa and wonder how long before the aspirin kicks in, because my head is still killing me.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Instead he asked the crowd to join him in singing Happy Birthday to the US superstar, who was sat in a private box, while sparkler-like fireworks erupted in the sky.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
At the table beside us sat a family of three: an elderly couple and their adult son, who had the restless energy of someone forced to sit at the dinner table against his will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Picturesque villages of green paddy fields and houses sat beside vast chunks of land washed away.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
While arenas sat empty and the sport sat idle, a representative for Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard named Dennis Robertson wanted $10 million more dollars a year for his client.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Many nights after the door was locked and the shutters closed, I sat on in the flickering gaslight, poring over old inventories and wholesalers’ statements.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
It has said it can help sate power-hungry data centers, electric vehicles and growing industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
The travelling India press pack is large and unrelenting and Gill struggled to sate them.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
That evening, a small company, consisting of Bono; my mother; the cook, Aina; and Nancy, the laundry-maid, sate by the fire in my mother’s room.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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After these grants, the parliament was dissolved, which had sitten near two years and a half, and had undergone several prorogations; a practice not very usual at that time in England.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. by David Hume
This year, the council of Trent was dissolved, which had sitten from 1545.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
And over that to mi matiere Of schrifte, why we sitten hiere In privete betwen ous tweie, Now axeth what ther is, I preie.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
A resolution was therefore taken to dissolve the parliament, which had sitten during this whole reign; and soon after to summon a new one.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
And so they arose and did their homage, and when they were gone Merlin found in every sieges letters of gold that told the knights' names that had sitten therein.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Chris Cline was sitting by a hotel pool with his wife last month before attending an American Farm Bureau Federation conference in New Orleans when he got a text from an unknown number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Santos, 22, dovetailed well with Mount during the early pre-season games, sitting deep and screening the back four.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I’m more interested in a company sitting directly at the intersection of aging, GLP-1 weight loss and cosmetic restoration — and I’m already accumulating shares.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
These breaks are a welcome respite from long stretches of sitting and screen-based learning, which is common in some classrooms despite questions about its efficacy.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
I was bolt awake now, sitting up on the bedroom floor, ripped from sleep by a smell from the kitchen.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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