can't stand
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“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it,” he tells Jake early in the novel, before the fiesta, before a lot of things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I can’t stand all this plastic trash we elevate above the natural world.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I should be grateful, but I can’t stand her anymore.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
"It's as if I'm stuck in a time I can't get out of... It's the waiting game that I can't stand," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
But then neither of us knows what to say next, and after a minute I can’t stand to let my mind linger in that place.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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