laying down
Example Sentences
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What comes after silicon microchips—pocket quantum computers, say, or transistors only an atom thick—could be as strange to people living today as microchips were in the 1960s, when Gordon Moore started laying down the law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Strikingly, the new American migrant is more likely than ever to bring children in tow, relocation companies and realtors say, laying down roots and raising a set of Americans feeding into foreign colleges.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
So it's growing all the time, it's laying down that peat as the sphagnum is kind of decaying.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
“What the devil do you mean?” he said, staring at me, laying down his spoon.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
