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  • past tense form of stand.
  • past participle of stand.
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stood

[stood] / stʊd /




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Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said the whole alliance, which includes the US, stood "in full solidarity with Germany".

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

A body of water that had managed for centuries without an identity crisis had become an A/B test: which lake you saw depended on where you stood and which corporation’s map you opened.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

He was going to fundamentally alter how he stood at the plate.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The Lagerstrasse was never dry now; even when the rain let up, deep puddles stood in the road.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom



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