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From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

But in the massive potential power shortfall lie ample opportunities for investors, according to Byrd.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

“In addition to it sounding exquisite, I’m not gonna lie, it also tore visually and symbolically.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Will a lie get me out? Surely not. That’s not my fate.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

All morning he went at it, not saying a word about my lie of having to help my mom at church, but whispering, even in religion class, a little chant: “Cobra … Cobra.…”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

He’s now buried right next to a baby girl who died at 4 months and had, until his burial, lain in the cemetery alone without anyone by her side.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

Starmer will arrive with an entourage of industry executives hoping to promote British business through a UK-China CEO Council, a body that has lain dormant for years.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

"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

The crate was gone, and where it had lain were the remains of a funeral pyre.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

For 20 minutes I lay alone, in the dark, mulling over what I’d been told.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“My hope is to really get my energy and strength back. I don’t want to lay in bed all day. I want to be able to get up and do my things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Earlier this week, the leaders of eight German states backed Merz and said restorting trust in the CDU lay in "listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

This was the essence of the rationale laid out by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong when the company said in May that it would lay off 14% of its workforce and eliminate “pure managers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Night after night we lay in bed listening to the growl of engines heading west.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

This issue is deeply related to the newly released trove of documents that indicate that New Yorkers were “misled” — essentially lied to — about air quality risks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Holmes tells Fielder she has never lied, a contention that clearly troubles him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air."

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The lawsuit was originally filed in 2023 by 29 US states, alleging Meta deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive and lied about risks.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

He had come away from Vietnam sick to death of being lied to by American officials.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Agents, records show, came to believe Hartman was lying about his role in Kao’s pay-to-play operation and would name him as a formal subject of a future investigation.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the animals remained tightly packed around one of the largest, which was lying motionless on its side.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The smallest craters that scientists can reliably detect in LRO images are around 30 feet across, about the length of a three-story building lying on its side.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Roebuck was still lying on the tile floor, his stomach burning.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I hated wearing them as passionately as she did, but I hated lying about who I was almost as much.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler