lay in
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Reilly’s particular genius lay in the methodology — vertical integration — he brought to campaigns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Perhaps its real significance lay in the fact that it was the first of many historic occasion in which the United States would undertake to project her military power far beyond her own borders.”
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Just weeks later, that career lay in tatters.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
According to Boettcher, Abdulmohsen's motive lay in a conflict with a Cologne-based refugee organisation against which he had lost a civil suit.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
