dwell
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Mr. Adams doesn’t dwell on such matters, nor does he fret about this music’s meaning in a changed world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I’m sure she would want you to live your best life, and not dwell on the financial aspect of her death.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Huang reserved his sharpest warning for governments that dwell on the technology's risks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Instead, their lives will be knitted into the narrative that everything they did transformed China into what it is now, rather than dwell on any other 'What If's'."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now she belonged to the spirits and would dwell in the land of her ancestors forever.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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It dwells on the conversations anybody would want dwelled on, like with President Trump and Chris Christie as each recovered from near-death Covid experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Joe Martinez, whose son, Kahlel, has been on the same team for about a year, said Caligiuri rarely dwells on his accomplishments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Though he handles the science of memory deftly, in the few spots where he dwells on it, his view of memory is an expansionist one incorporating concepts of immortality as much as neural integrity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Deep down, where truth dwells, he wasn’t at all sure he’d be getting off the island soon.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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It dwells on the conversations anybody would want dwelled on, like with President Trump and Chris Christie as each recovered from near-death Covid experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Vance’s most heated points about gender dwelled not on hormones but on LGBTQ+ issues.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024
On Saturday, the group’s president, David McIntosh, sat in the front row of a Trump rally in Conway, S.C., a detail that the former president repeatedly dwelled on for his audience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
For example, you dwelled a little bit on this trailer — that’s maybe of interest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
We both were aware of the serious risks involved in playing together in a white neighbourhood, but we never dwelled on them.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
While Roberts’s report dwelt mostly on historical anecdotes, it contained one concrete sign of the impact of Trump’s signature issue: immigration enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit who dwelt in the waterholes and came out in the evenings when the mists rose, dressed in grey, with white hair and a long tangled beard.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Although the globe's top financiers dwelt little on the conflict, speaking about topics such as artificial intelligence, the economic fallout of war combined with record debts as rates rise created a bleak backdrop.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2023
More lights glowed in the woods, and weirdest of all, a fire flickered in the attic window of the Big House, where the Oracle dwelt, imprisoned in an old mummified body.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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Wholeness doesn’t come from the absence of brokenness, but from dwelling honestly within that brokenness—and allowing the memory of a lost person to grow into a blessing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The prospect of their brother’s dwelling being razed fills them with anguish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Rather than dwelling on the absence of a right hand, Fontaine saw something wondrous coming out of Abbott’s left hand — a cut fastball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Now, Jolie has officially found a buyer for the six-bedroom, 10-bathroom dwelling, where she has lived with her kids since she and Pitt split, as first reported by Mansion Global.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Smaller than Lord Furnival’s dwelling, it was built of stout timbers, with grinding wheels of massive stone.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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