lain

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"It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

A rich copper belt in the north of the country has lain fallow since Macri crashed and burned in 2018.

From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025

If being replaced by Nat Sciver-Brunt meant one part of Knight's identity was lost, there was another that had lain dormant, ready to be revived and unleashed.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

He stood up tall and proud again, and stepping swiftly back to the table he lifted from it the pillow on which his head had lain.

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