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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

One brother was watching by the bed where the other lay dying and saw a strange hawk-like bird fly through the open window and alight upon the breast of the dying man.

From Reveries over Childhood and Youth by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)




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