sit down
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For her sit-down with Shepherd, Huger was styled in a formfitting burnt orange dress, metallic cuffs and a chic bob.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
On a Reddit thread about this subject — that specifically referenced a meal costing $35 for two — one commenter noted: “I’m eating at a sit-down restaurant for less than that.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
A nearby Ecuadorean restaurant, meanwhile, offers delivery but not sit-down service.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
In an unusual break from the usual choreography of visits by foreign leaders, the White House didn’t open the Oval Office sit-down to the press and skipped the customary greetings and joint remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
There was no question of McKissick’s own brilliance: he had helped design one of the earliest sustained sit-down protests against Jim Crow and helped to guide the most famous of these efforts—the Greensboro lunch-counter protest.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
