laying down
Example Sentences
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“These organizations are not pursuing any strategic objective that they are happy to pursue through democratic means after laying down their weapons,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 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
So it's growing all the time, it's laying down that peat as the sphagnum is kind of decaying.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
It was also an asymmetric bet, like laying down money on a number in roulette.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
