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“I want to go back and take every opportunity to sit down and get on the phone and talk.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
A quick call is one thing, but “I’m not going to sit there and run a deal,” the auto broker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
For “strategic cash” that can sit for six to 12 months, she believes an ultrashort fund is ideal.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Blow, who has not responded to these critiques publicly, tells me he instead decided to "sit down and focus on the games".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
I sit, watching but not watching life go on around me, wondering how it’s possible when someone so important just died.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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He sat in disbelief as the passenger answered it and chatted away for a couple of minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Star guard Luka Doncic sat out after scoring 21 points in one half Monday against the Sacramento Kings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Campbell said immediately after the incident it was as if "the red mist lifted" and he and Turner went into a nearby common room and sat down at a table.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
For years, I sat at kitchen tables with couples in their 20s and early 30s who had a car payment, credit-card debt and kids they wanted to send to college one day.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
I sat down blinking at knives, forks, tablecloth—had I once eaten like this, every day in the year?
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
The startup says its discoveries can help sate the U.S.’s thirst for power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
While the network has tried to sate its audience, no “Ultimate Girls Trip” or “Simple Life”-esque spinoff has quite hit the mark like “RHONY” classic could.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
The day she heard of this determination, my mother walked as if in sleep to the room where Bono and I sate, shining boots.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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And at o syde of the emperours table, sitten many philosofres, that ben preved for wise men, in many dyverse scyences; as of astronomye, nigromancye, geomancye, pyromancye, ydromancye, of augurye and of many other scyences.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
After the death of Sethon, who had sitten fourteen years on the throne, Tharaca ascended it, and reigned eighteen years.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
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
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
Business, being carried on with great unanimity, was soon despatched; and after they had sitten near two months, the king, in a speech full of the most gracious expressions, thought proper to dissolve them.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume
“We’ve never been so this is maybe our last chance,” Tom Beattie said, sitting on a bench with their border terrier Annie as his wife called her sister from the pay phone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I would have never, never gotten onstage if I would have known that her body was still sitting there with her family surrounding her,” Sheila E. said in video statement after the festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The second floor is home to three more bedrooms and two additional sitting areas, while the remaining bedrooms and a second kitchen are located in the home’s two-level guesthouse.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
I published one of the first R.E.M. fanzines, sitting at my kitchen table in my third-floor Hoboken tenement walkup with an X-Acto knife and a glue stick.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
‘What did you say?’ said Renn, sitting up and banging her head on the ceiling.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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