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They sit at the top of corporate power structures, influencing and advising management teams and hiring and firing CEOs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Collaborative decision with performance, everyone involved,” Redick said of the decision for Sexton to sit out Wednesday after previously participating in a full practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett ordered Trump to sit for a videotaped deposition to take questions from the BBC’s lawyers by Dec. 11.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Doodson added the responsibility for "these failures did not sit with one organisation alone".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“In theory we should let this sit and cool off first, but I don’t think we’re wrong to taste test them now, don’t you agree?”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

As he sat in the parking lot, he wrote, the car circled him for five minutes, and he could overhear the driver on the phone through her vehicle’s speaker system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

In 1956 the Dodgers had a 20-year-old pitcher who’d been born and bred in Brooklyn, N.Y., but who sat on the bench for the entire World Series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In a separate room with bunk beds for napping, younger children sat on a pink-and-blue mat, captivated by a teacher reading them a story.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Bukayo Saka: Dangerous crosses into the area but not much room to operate as Forest sat deep.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

I think it was the first time I had ever sat there on the bench with Mutti.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

That led him to the petroleum industry, where working on oil rigs in the punishing North Sea and near conflict zones helped sate his risk appetite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

It seems likely that Sir Keir's rhetoric in PMQs will sate some Labour MPs for now.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

There, midst their thousand Eyes, their black, open Eyes, he sate slumped — him looking out to Sea at the Moon.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Thus came to a period a parliament which had sitten during the whole course of this reign, one year excepted.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume

I've seed it written, a feller was sitten on a marvel stone, and our Lord came by; and he said to him, 'What's the matter with thee, my man?'

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

They had not sitten but a while, Certain, without leas-ing, There came two messengers out of the north, With letters to our King.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

You, all of you, have sitten still a good While.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

It is to unlettered people that we owe the disuse of holpen, bounden, sitten, and the use of the regular participles, swelled, helped, worked, in place of the ancient ones.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

His latest slew of AI videos included one showing an elderly Palestinian man sitting in the rubble of Gaza before a genie in the form of Ben Gvir grants his wish to move to Paris.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

His parents covered the rental cost while he paid for gas, but he hated sitting in traffic, parking and feeling disconnected from the city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

For most of the war, Iran had an invaluable cushion: dozens of oil tankers holding millions of barrels of crude sitting safely in waters in Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

As of Thursday, 13 councillors are sitting as non-aligned independents, while 18 Ashfield Independents remain, meaning the party is one councillor away from losing its majority.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

We’re sitting shoulder to shoulder on the edge of Mr. Harris’s bed — now her mom’s bed.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam