laying down
Example Sentences
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They constructed a nest on the north side of the lake, laying down a foundation for a lineage that endures today.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
What comes after silicon microchips—pocket quantum computers, say, or transistors only an atom thick—could be as strange to people living today as microchips were in the 1960s, when Gordon Moore started laying down the law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
Mr. Lotoro is in awe of these composers in adversity: “Those who produced music in captivity were laying down a testament. These musicians were repairing a broken world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
He knew about men laying down their lives for this brotherhood.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
