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sitting

[sit-ing] / ˈsɪt ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
in seated position
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“He just calmly turned to me. He was sitting two or three seats away. He said, ‘Jeff, just type these words.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

She is sitting in her kitchen, at home in Yangon, where on the morning of 8 May 2025 she saw her 33-year-old husband Phyo Wai for the last time.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

No president has removed a sitting Fed governor in the central bank's 113-year history.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Inside we see Mike Ditka sitting at a table with friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then we were all sitting around the fire.

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

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

"The sittings were extremely pleasurable on my part," he said.

From BBC ● May 6, 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

Along with all this, I suppose I’m trying to say that I know how bitterly you resent the years when S. and I were regularly conducting home seminars, and the metaphysical sittings in particular.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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