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spent

[spent] / spɛnt /


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The receiver, who turns 32 on March 1, spent four seasons with Miami after joining from the Kansas City Chiefs in 2022.

From Barron's

Wiseman has spent a career probing the complex inner workings and painfully human errors of America’s establishments, but in marriage itself, he may have found the most fraught, mysterious and unreformable institution of all.”

From Los Angeles Times

She spent the evening before her disappearance enjoying dinner and games at the home of her daughter Annie, before getting a ride back to her house.

From The Wall Street Journal

Together the duo wrote “Like a Virgin,” which spent six weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 in late 1984 and early 1985.

From Los Angeles Times

He trained in radio repair at Camp Gordon in Georgia but spent his off-duty time with a community theater group in nearby Augusta.

From Los Angeles Times