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[sit] / sɪt /




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“Within three days, he had to sit back down at the table,” says Figuera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“You can’t sit there and go, ‘Because we did X, we’re going to do Y,’ but we obviously know what it takes to win football games,” quarterback Matthew Stafford said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

They sit at the top of corporate power structures, influencing and advising management teams and hiring and firing CEOs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Chris Collier, who has been contacted for comment, will now sit as an independent cabinet member on the Labour-Green alliance that was formed to run the council in May 2023.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

She comes to sit on the bed beside me.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

CARACAS—When Dinorah Figuera first sat down for talks on restoring democratic institutions here, she faced one of the most powerful figures in the autocratic regime that drove her into exile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

"I sat down with my mom and Dr. Nicole Saphier to talk about my mom's journey with breast cancer and learn more about prevention and early detection," she continued.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Cornerback Trent McDuffie, who sat out against the Cardinals because of a groin injury, did not practice this week and will be listed as questionable against the Raiders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In the spring of 2024, Antonelli sat in for his first F1 test, behind closed doors, at a circuit in Austria in miserable weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

As soon as everyone had coffee, I sat down just to gaze at him.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

It seems likely that Sir Keir's rhetoric in PMQs will sate some Labour MPs for now.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

It has said it can help sate power-hungry data centers, electric vehicles and growing industries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Rowan ate with rare gluttony that morning, for once allowing himself to fully sate his appetite, and as he ate, he stole a few glances at Citra.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

And over that to mi matiere Of schrifte, why we sitten hiere In privete betwen ous tweie, Now axeth what ther is, I preie.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

They had not sitten but a while, Certain, without leas-ing, There came two messengers out of the north, With letters to our King.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley

All who had sitten in any illegal high court of justice were disabled from bearing offices.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume

Give, bid, sit, make in the preterit gave, bade, sate; in the participle passive given, bidden, sitten; but in both bid.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

It is to unlettered people that we owe the disuse of holpen, bounden, sitten, and the use of the regular participles, swelled, helped, worked, in place of the ancient ones.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

His latest slew of AI videos included one showing an elderly Palestinian man sitting in the rubble of Gaza before a genie in the form of Ben Gvir grants his wish to move to Paris.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The incident reportedly started after a group sitting behind McHenry started shouting insults toward Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma about his fiancée, Winnie Harlow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Throughout my career, I’ve interviewed dozens of sitting lawmakers and political candidates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

As of Thursday, 13 councillors are sitting as non-aligned independents, while 18 Ashfield Independents remain, meaning the party is one councillor away from losing its majority.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Keep sitting here or get in the pool?

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam


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