beside

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Malak Meslmani, Jawad's mother, sat beside her son's body with tears streaming down her face.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Where dinosaur tracks coexist beside spooky rows of barracks left from a 16th-century monastery, there’s a spectacular view of coastline all the way back to the white spires of Lisbon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“Whether investors believe these solutions actually pose a threat to existing cybersecurity vendors is pretty much beside the point,” he added.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

But their work has often been made invisible, sometimes by the very men who stood beside them in building worker power for Latinx people in the United States.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

It landed on the floor beside the cot where I clawed for it and gnawed it greedily.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom