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lie

[lahy] / laɪ /






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“This is a woman who owns everything she is, who never tells a single lie or tries to obscure what she wants,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

"When you lie down in the heat and the dark, believe that you are not alone in that darkness," Barrow said, pledging to boost power supplies by next month.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

However, she is facing state charges, so the power of clemency would lie with the governor of Massachusetts.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Now, as the post-Labor Day stretch begins, a number of new challenges lie ahead: ever-shifting odds of an interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“Come on, Mavis. I know you can lie better than that.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

"Maybe I should have lain down on the floor to block it. I personally regret it," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

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

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

Things that had lain inside me, curled up like the turtle hatchlings newly emerged from their eggs, taking time in the dark of their nest to unfurl themselves.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Following the ceremony, people at the arboretum were invited to lay their own wreaths at the memorial.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Not just show up and expect the other team to lay down.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

The blame for any harm the technology inflicts should lay with its creators.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

What will matter most is what the BoJ signals about the path of future rate hikes, which it will lay out in the postmeeting communication and press conference.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

He drew his knife from its sheath, and slipped off his mitten to lay his hand on the cold blue slate.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

She lied to FBI agents when asked about the state’s lawsuit against video game company Activision Blizzard Inc., details contained in the November indictment against Williamson and other public records show.

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

"People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air," Mamdani said at a news conference with survivors.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

And most importantly, she said, it’s a community of people who are “tired of being lied to.”

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

“Is it weird that I still miss Dylan a little, even though he lied over and over?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

She also admitted in her plea deal to filing a false tax form in 2024 and lying to FBI agents that same year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The trick is not to recreate the chicken bake so faithfully that you simply end up with one lying open-faced on a pie crust.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Last week, my Oura ring mistakenly logged a two-hour binge-watching session as time asleep because I was lying motionless in bed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

The Location, Location, Location host, 55, shared a photo on Instagram, external of her lying in an ambulance with cuts on her face and a breathing tube up her nose.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

There was gold lying in tangles on my floor as if it were nothing but straw.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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