beside

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In that bitter January darkness of a Manchester elementary school parking lot, several dozen voters clustered in line beside me to get into the gym just as the polls opened.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Bryan Hoggan, from Selkirk, is a regular hillwalker and against a proposed route which would largely run beside the busy A7.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Aldana Ramirez tries to warm up beside a brasero, a type of local heater, on a freezing night at Los Azules copper project in San Juan province, the epicenter of Milei's mining "revolution."

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Then the camera cut to Willie Nelson singing along beside Bryan Cranston, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Francis Collins, who was then the director of the National Institutes of Health.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

Bracing herself on the guardrail, she knelt beside the fox.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman