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lain

[leyn] / leɪn /




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"It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

A rich copper belt in the north of the country has lain fallow since Macri crashed and burned in 2018.

From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025

Several blocks of maisonettes were demolished though, leaving behind land which has lain derelict for more than a decade.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024

She had lain down one night, sulking and abashed, a little way from her sisters, but not too far.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison



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