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For some time, there has been an assumption that — at one point or another — the Premier League will inevitably alight upon its own version of this approach.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

The first victims are seabirds, graceful creatures that alight upon the ocean’s surface.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

The trio think the death is solved — as the police do, ruling it a suicide — then Mabel and Charles both alight upon the same idea in the middle of the night.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021

David has me wade into the waters of the James River and alight upon a jet ski.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

When we pass from Chaucer's age, we have to overleap nearly a hundred and eighty years before we alight upon a period presenting anything like an adequate show of literary continuation.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin




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