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[dwel] / dwɛl /


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Saka admitted there was frustration at not playing more, but chose not to dwell on his omission after producing the performance of the match against France.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

It was yet another early exit for a team that has never made it to the World Cup semifinals — but no one wanted to dwell on defeat, because no one felt defeated.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

"Rattlesnakes occupy an important role in the ecosystems they dwell in and in recent years their populations have dropped significantly in many parts of the United States."

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Must we really dwell, ladies, on the downsides of heterosexual dating, marriage, childbearing, and domestic labor as though they are issues of life and death?

From Salon Jun. 3, 2026

Built jails to dwell on and hold on to its own private decay.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Curiously, the book also dwells little on Monroe’s own literary ambitions.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

“You no bi,” or “the beauty of utility,” suggests that beauty need not be “confined to galleries and museums, but rather dwells within the ordinary scenes of living.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

The deep-sea is still largely unexplored and biodiversity surveys of these habitats are vital to increase our understanding of the incredible marine life that dwells in the depths of our oceans.

From Science Daily Oct. 8, 2025

It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

“The God who once dwelled among His people in this city still calls us in the words of Scripture,” the president said in a speech at Israel’s parliament in October.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

But by the Lakers took the floor Wednesday evening, they took on the persona of their head coach, JJ Redick, who pregame said, “I don’t think I’ve ever dwelled on the past.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2024

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

The old men looked at their stalklike legs, dwelled on the cords in the backs of their knees and remembered old dance steps they had not done in twenty years.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Indeed, commentators seem to have dwelt on little else.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

That song opened Friday night's encore, which dwelt largely on their 90s material, including Let Down - a deep cut that's had a new lease of life on TikTok - and the epic Paranoid Android.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

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

He thinks about the video Caitlin made, how barely anyone in it dwelt on football.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2023

She left Olympus; she dwelt on earth, but so disguised that none knew her, and, indeed, the gods are not easily discerned by mortal men.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

As the son of a cobbler, he knows how to tan goat hides, which provide him with the needed coverings for both his dwelling place and his body.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

While the property boasts far more outdoor space than their Beverly Hills abode, for those seeking a private, secluded retreat in California, the couple’s former Golden State dwelling could well be the perfect place.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Not long after he put his Beverly Hills manse on the market, Bloom snapped up a much larger dwelling in nearby Montecito, Calif., for $11.25 million.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Property records show that her main residence is a five-bedroom, five-bathroom dwelling in Boca, which she bought for $900,000 in 2017—and continues to live in to this day.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

So the dwelling long neglected—the one I’d been trying to locate for the past six months—had been sitting right out in the open on Frobozz this entire time.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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