can't stand
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It's all because she can't stand the sound of the delivery drones that fly overhead, depositing her neighbours' online orders.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“If I can’t stand up here and answer a tough question, then I have no business running the state.”
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it,” he tells Jake early in the novel, before the fiesta, before a lot of things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"He can't stand not being the center of attention. So this may spark him to be even more aggressive," Lichtman told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Yoyo always says no, until she can't stand it anymore because her head feels as if it's going to crack open, and she says yes.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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