lay
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Like Macbeth, they usually know it is wrong, and like Macbeth, they should lay out all the lessons not to do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
A woman was close by talking to him, she said, before "he jumped in and crawled in front of the tiger, where the tiger was perched and just lay there".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Heavy precipitation can also derail the soil compaction process, where crews lay down the soil in layers and go over each with a construction vehicle known as a roller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits each week has fallen to historic lows, reinforcing that companies are very reluctant to lay off workers with the economy growing steadily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
As he took in what lay ahead, dread settled inside him.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Its people lived and died and laid the groundwork for humanity’s settled future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
In a letter, Kleger-Heine laid out these accusations, which she presented to the board in December 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The path he laid out ran through Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina, and Maine.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
Perhaps it's not overly imaginative to be opting for the current top two in Germany's second tier but FC Nuremberg meet all the selection criteria laid out above.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He untied everything from his belt and laid it in a pile on the ground.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Therefore I should, at this moment in time, be careful in terms of laying the ground to bring people back together. That is the role I intend to play," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
"Therefore I should, at this moment in time, be careful in terms of laying the ground to bring people back together."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Every year, when laying out each entity’s budgets, officials make projections about how income, and thus taxes, will fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Rush fabricated a highly classified program to justify the acquisition of luxury real estate in South Florida, which he then intended to resell for personal profit," the court filing laying out the deal states.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Monday at the park, Zach and I are cutting and laying in new trails where the fire took the old ones.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Poetry: Genres
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