lie
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Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Will a lie get me out? Surely not. That’s not my fate.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Prosecutors in Colombia have accused former foreign minister Laura Sarabia of abusing her power after she made her nanny take a lie detector test.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“This is a woman who owns everything she is, who never tells a single lie or tries to obscure what she wants,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Holdme, Rowan," she called, and flung herself down to lie beside Val.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Buildings that had lain dormant for years were suddenly filled with music and dance.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
A rich copper belt in the north of the country has lain fallow since Macri crashed and burned in 2018.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
And yet they had "lain undiscovered for some time" in their home in Radford, Nottingham, last May.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Alert, I passed through the dining-room to the stairs and proceeded up to the bedchambers, walking carefully with my bare feet lain upon the extreme edges of the steps, so that they might not squeak.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Outside Sacramento, Calif., dozens of workers in yellow vests do stretches before going out to lay a continuous, five-mile-long fiber-optic cable under the city.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that he will meet his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng this weekend for talks expected to lay the groundwork for the White House summit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Court documents lay out the entanglement between Owens and Echard in vivid detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Female flies lay their eggs in open wounds or natural body openings.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
I only knew, as I lay in my bed at the top of the house, that certain moments from long ago stood out in focus against the blur of years.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Prosecutors alleged she altered other women’s ultrasound images to make them look like hers, fabricated a pregnancy video, bought hormone injections that could affect pregnancy-test results and repeatedly lied under oath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
This issue is deeply related to the newly released trove of documents that indicate that New Yorkers were “misled” — essentially lied to — about air quality risks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Holmes tells Fielder she has never lied, a contention that clearly troubles him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air."
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It never crossed his mind that his friend may have lied to him about their destination.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Last night I tried it, lying awake at 3 a.m., and it worked.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
In 1944, on the eve of the lunar new year, the newlyweds moved to Hengyang, a city of 300,000 souls lying in the path of Japan’s planned military offensive, Operation Ichi-Go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The smallest craters that scientists can reliably detect in LRO images are around 30 feet across, about the length of a three-story building lying on its side.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
When the BBC visited some in June, dozens of families were seen lying on blankets on the floor, and one hospital said it was operating at more than double its capacity.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I first saw this compass on that day,” she went on, “the day we found him lying there in the barn…”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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