stand in with
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His team has developed ways to enhance current technology used in the screening machine that you stand in with your hands above your head, and created sharper X-ray images, according to the federal agency.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
The problem was that most of the tableaux were mobbed with Ghibli fans — and lines that we didn’t have time to stand in with restless toddlers.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023
These are the full-body scanners you’ll encounter at U.S. airports today—the ones you stand in with your feet apart and your hands above your head—and experts agree they shouldn’t worry you.
From Time • Aug. 23, 2017
She must stand in with the old man and old woman pretty good, he thought.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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When he had finished his rather light breakfast, I whispered to him that if he would stand in with me, I would show him, before night, the prettiest stream of water—snow water—in the world.
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll