dwell
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But it does show that negative dwell time is not an artifact.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Crucially, the negative value of the weakly measured dwell time cannot be explained by imagining that only the front of the photon’s pulse gets through, unlike the time inferred from the arrival time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
I didn’t dwell on it at the time because I think such visits are kind of ho-hum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
England's players have little time to dwell on the Test defeat, much like with the World Cup, as they immediately turn their attention to The Hundred which starts on 21 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“But, hey. That’s only on Mondays. Otherwise, I don’t dwell on it.”
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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From here, much of the novel dwells on Günter’s terror and paralysis as the Nazi Party wrests control of Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Curiously, the book also dwells little on Monroe’s own literary ambitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Still, the book doesn’t quite deliver on its promise; this “warts-and-all” look at the American past dwells, a bit predictably, on the warts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
He never dwells on errors, he just kicks on.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Unusually for a dragon, it dwells in valleys rather than mountains.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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It dwells on the conversations anybody would want dwelled on, like with President Trump and Chris Christie as each recovered from near-death Covid experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Vance’s most heated points about gender dwelled not on hormones but on LGBTQ+ issues.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024
Players and coaches had been answering the same questions for months, repeating the same refrain about how a defense that dwelled near the bottom of every statistical category last season would be decidedly different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
In an interview, Mr. Heffernan said he had not dwelled on trying to understand what was behind the attack.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Clare shot a vexed look toward the… well, the world in general, because he was not sure where exactly the Afterlife dwelled.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
On average, their eyes dwelt on their screen for longer when the language was angry and emotive.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Indeed, commentators seem to have dwelt on little else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Television pioneer Norman Lear, who died this month at the age of 101, told me three years ago that he dwelt not on what he’d done but on what he wanted to do next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
Sauron also had watched us, and had long prepared against our stroke, governing Mordor from afar through Minas Morgul, where his Nine servants dwelt, until all was ready.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Canal and River Trust says that, post-Covid, our waterways have increasingly become "places of dwelling".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
If we were to make a precise measurement of whether the photon is dwelling in the atoms, at each instant of time, we would prevent the atoms from interacting with the photon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Ryan worked with Evan R. Kulman of Compass on the listing, while Douglas Elliman agents Paul Brennan and Martha Gundersen helped to secure a buyer for the dwelling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The book focused on Keaton’s newfound love of the photo-sharing site and how it helped to inspire her creativity when it came to the interior design of the dwelling.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Over there; she thought, looking down the path she had ridden to get to the school, I can almost see the dwelling where I grew up.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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