can't stand
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“If I can’t stand up here and answer a tough question, then I have no business running the state.”
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it,” he tells Jake early in the novel, before the fiesta, before a lot of things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I can’t stand all this plastic trash we elevate above the natural world.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I should be grateful, but I can’t stand her anymore.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
He’s not a pretty boy, but I can’t stand pretty boys anyway.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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