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  • present participle of stand.
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standing

[stan-ding] / ˈstæn dɪŋ /




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“I’m 53—maybe 12 years ago I’d be OK standing up in a K-Town bar,” said Hooni Kim, chef-owner of the Michelin-starred restaurant Meju.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

A list of all the candidates standing in Makerfield is available here.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Ultimately, the nanozymes hypothesis is intended to provide a broader framework that may help reconcile long standing disagreements among competing origin-of-life theories.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

"We've got teams standing by, we've got lawyers standing by, very focused on that. We don't want to let anyone down, we don't want to let anything slip away, and we've seen nothing."

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The guy standing a few feet away from me addresses the woman behind him.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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