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beside

[bih-sahyd] / bɪˈsaɪd /




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A similar photo of the houses on fire is also splashed across the front of today's Daily Mirror beside the headline "Britain on fire".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

"It's crazy!" uttered a woman as the crowd beside suddenly burst into enthusiastic applause.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

“We’re not doing it, but I wish,” says Stalter as she sits beside Downs during a video call from Hudson Yards in Midtown Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Davis’s public triumphs as a Heisman winner, All-American and the No. 1 pick in the 1962 National Football League draft stand beside Owens’s as proof that talent and character transcend bigotry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The badger looked around as if she could not possibly believe she was being summoned back, but reluctantly resumed her place in the garden beside Clare.

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




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