can't stand
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It's all because she can't stand the sound of the delivery drones that fly overhead, depositing her neighbours' online orders.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The people who know him best tend to use the same words to describe Hassabis: brilliant, relentless, so ferociously competitive that he can’t stand losing a game of foosball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
I can’t stand all this plastic trash we elevate above the natural world.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
"They keep taking things, I can't stand it," protests the person recording with their phone.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
He told me he slept about four hours a night but later confessed, “I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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