sitting
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Now put a portfolio sitting way out on the calendar into that year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
In the summer of 2019, I was sitting in a stark hospital room, while a shrunken version of my mom laid in the bed in front of me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“So I ended up sitting there for like two hours just taking pictures, and you had other birders there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
One of them, Khurram Mehmood, told the AFP news agency his three-day-old daughter died in the fire and claimed that rescuers took hours to arrive: "We were sitting on the road waiting for help."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Then she was skidding sitting up, her bonnet still askew.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
It’s a trim book—you can read it in a couple of sittings or on a long flight—but it’s perhaps best enjoyed in small doses, a chapter or two at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
According to the Hansard Society, a think tank, such options include additional sittings on Fridays, a time traditionally reserved to debate bills put forward by backbench MPs.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The first season ended in April and dropped weekly, but waiting to gulp down episodes in a couple of sittings may be more rewarding than taking it in over a couple of months.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
In addition to the physical exertion of long meditation sittings and martial arts, your teachers were constantly correcting you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The Scarlet Letter he read in six sittings.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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