lain

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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

St. Nicholas’ body had lain under the floor of their church for 700 years.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

As Pearl had grown taller, sharing a bed became less and less feasible, and it had been a long time since they’d lain together this way.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng