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[dwel] / dwɛl /


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I’m sure she would want you to live your best life, and not dwell on the financial aspect of her death.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

Huang reserved his sharpest warning for governments that dwell on the technology's risks.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Container dwell times at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach rose to their highest level in more than a year on surging imports.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

"Instead, their lives will be knitted into the narrative that everything they did transformed China into what it is now, rather than dwell on any other 'What If's'."

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The words sounded odd, somehow wrong, but Koffi didn’t have time to dwell on them as Mama tore off across the Night Zoo’s lawns, pulling her in tow.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It dwells on the conversations anybody would want dwelled on, like with President Trump and Chris Christie as each recovered from near-death Covid experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Curiously, the book also dwells little on Monroe’s own literary ambitions.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

A 1772 meditation about the crucifixion by a man who struggled with depression all his life, the hymn dwells on Christ’s gory death and evokes the metaphor of sinners bathing in blood.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 25, 2026

Night was the child of Chaos and so was Erebus, which is the unfathomable depth where death dwells.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It dwells on the conversations anybody would want dwelled on, like with President Trump and Chris Christie as each recovered from near-death Covid experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The prosecutor dwelled at excruciating length on Graham’s love letters to Prow.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2025

Vance’s most heated points about gender dwelled not on hormones but on LGBTQ+ issues.

From Slate Nov. 1, 2024

England fans dwelled on the agonising near misses in the knockout stages of major tournaments - Diego Maradona's handball in 1986, losses on penalties to Germany in 1990 and 1996.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2024

The Acllahuasi in the capital city was where most of the Sun Maidens dwelled.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

Any single run of the experiment gives only a very rough indication of whether the photon dwelt in the atoms, but averaging millions of runs yields an accurate dwell time.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

While Roberts’s report dwelt mostly on historical anecdotes, it contained one concrete sign of the impact of Trump’s signature issue: immigration enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit who dwelt in the waterholes and came out in the evenings when the mists rose, dressed in grey, with white hair and a long tangled beard.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2024

Although the globe's top financiers dwelt little on the conflict, speaking about topics such as artificial intelligence, the economic fallout of war combined with record debts as rates rise created a bleak backdrop.

From Reuters Oct. 24, 2023

The vale was rich and many folk dwelt there.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Galicia didn’t get the protection he needed, despite multiple contacts with police and city offices — by him, relatives and neighbors —regarding the empty dwelling next door to his on North St. Andrews Place.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Now, Realtor.com can exclusively reveal that Evans offloaded the dwelling for $5.38 million—a more than $1 million discount from his already reduced price.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

By comparison, the couple was reportedly paying $24,500 a month in rent for their most recent U.K. dwelling, a royal residence on the grounds of Windsor Castle called Frogmore Cottage.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Each newly created dwelling must have an EPC by law, making it the most timely indicator of new homes being built.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Mark followed him, determined to stop dwelling on the past.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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