beside

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Four U.A.E. flags fluttered from the roof in the afternoon breeze, while a small fleet of roughly two dozen school buses stood idle beside the compound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Shortly after the Iran war started four weeks ago, farming executive Bikram Hundal was beside himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 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

He stood beside her stroking her ear and feeding her potatoes as if he’d been doing it all his life, talking to her all the while.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo