benches

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Welfare offices became “job centers” and set welfare recipients to painting park benches, raking leaves and cleaning courtrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Each of the 65 benches around the UK is linked to a person who is living with heart or circulatory disease.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

It offers the customary plain benches inside, but other interior features, like an iron stove, sit outside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The sun was not quite up as Eric Helera unlocked the doors of his jeepney, wiped down its two long passenger benches, and checked his brake fluid before another day ferrying Manila commuters.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

By then we had come to the Chinese Opera House, an outdoor stage facing a courtyard full of benches.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu