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standing up





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“People at my church have stopped me and said, ‘I’m so proud of you for standing up and taking care of the town when so many other people would have walked away,’ ” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

CoreWeave has emerged as one of the leading neoclouds, a class of companies standing up infrastructure to meet overflowing demand for AI compute.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

And he told me I couldn’t be the only one standing up.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

And standing up there and just singing — I was like, I should be at a poetry reading.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Before we left, I asked a worker when he expected Cleopatra’s Needle would be standing up at Greywacke Knoll, and he said it could be months.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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