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Facilitators—some witting, some not—also open bank accounts, cash checks and sit for some interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“There were no other kids that really played at the school, so I’d just sit down and play,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their shops down narrow alleys sit dark behind faded signs advertising "traditional fortune-telling houses".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Has my body changed? I have no idea. I've got a few aches and pains, but if I sit in a chair for too long at my age I get aches and pains," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
I sit on the steps a few feet away while he gets a bucket full of gardening tools and starts working.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In 2012, on the day after Mark Walter and his partners bought the Dodgers, I sat next to Walter in a conference room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Thousands of people from across the West of England stood or sat completely still on Wednesday evening to watch a historic partial eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A sobbing girl, no more than six years old, sat alone on a hospital bed, her family yet to visit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
On her dresser sat three, 8-ounce bags of powder: one empty, one unopened and one half-full.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Him and Charlie sat with their backs to the grove, so I was the one to see Siren.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
It’s just enough to sate the palate until next week, when we find ourselves craving a treat once again.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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
He was merry, and we sate in an office in the warehouse while he feigned instruction and I feigned learning.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
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
Baith yerl an' leddy startit up: 'at they sud hae sitten doon till a meal ohn even adverteest their veesitor that sic was their purpose!
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
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
Bot, fader, now ye sitten hier 130 In loves stede, I yow beseche, That som ensample ye me teche, Wherof I mai miself appese.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
The two met at dancing class, where Fava was one of Iannotta's pupils, and started performing outdoors regularly in the summer since, as Iannotta puts it, they both "hate sitting around at home".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
But that’s so you can have $100,000 sitting around being eaten alive by inflation?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“They’re sitting in the chair for hours and hours, so we’re making sure that our choreography isn’t messing with something that takes so long to create,” she explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Individual investors are sitting on a mountain of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
At least it isn’t still sitting in the mailbox outside.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
