lying

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After years of refusing to embrace wearable fitness trackers, Pamela Paul discovered she’d already inadvertently succumbed—she had an iPhone and therefore a fitness app; its built-in ring was lying in wait.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"When you get back you can't say what you've been doing, I mean lying to your parish priest is quite difficult."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The fiction: Rattlesnakes are lying in wait to bite humans.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Despite lying beneath unmarked stones, these young people were not nameless.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

I discovered that if you didn’t see the edge of her face or her hand or arm lying on the desk, she looked almost like any girl with dirty hair.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott