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dwelt

[dwelt] / dwɛlt /


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Any single run of the experiment gives only a very rough indication of whether the photon dwelt in the atoms, but averaging millions of runs yields an accurate dwell time.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

On average, their eyes dwelt on their screen for longer when the language was angry and emotive.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Indeed, commentators seem to have dwelt on little else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

Television pioneer Norman Lear, who died this month at the age of 101, told me three years ago that he dwelt not on what he’d done but on what he wanted to do next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

Partly it was shaped in the making of the mountains, but mighty works the Men of Westernesse had wrought there of old; and Saruman had dwelt there long and had not been idle.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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