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At 9 a.m. the next morning, Debbie August, a 71-year-old Jewish woman from Naples, Fla., seated beside me at the mahjong table, ordered a round of mimosas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“We are a little bit beside ourselves,” said John Yep, the CEO of Catholics for Catholics, a nonprofit group that has hosted faith events at Mar-a-Lago.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

People are beside themselves with some mix of confusion and rage because stocks are barely down,” Donnelly said in written commentary.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

In the south of the Netherlands, beside a wide estuary, a village of around 1,100 people is likely to disappear from the map.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Perched beside me on the bed, Nollie joined in as naturally as though visiting a university was an everyday event for us.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom