perch
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It operates out of a perch in Midtown Manhattan with sweeping views of Central Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A wall of windows looks out onto the lush main lawn, providing both a quiet place to read and a perfect perch for people watching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
That market surge catapulted the California-based company into becoming the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, a perch it still holds ahead of iPhone-maker Apple.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
"I do not have a right to my lofty perch."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
I wondered if this had been Uncle Chester’s favorite perch as well.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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On Centre Court he perches on the public seats on the lookout for any movement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Pistachio cold foam now perches atop iced coffees from nationwide chains, Dubai chocolate knock-offs sit at every grocery checkout stand and boutique patisseries fill croissants with pistachio butters and creams.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
The office used to be one of the few perches prominent enough to attract national attention.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Coming to you from the opposite end of the movie musical spectrum from where “Wicked” perches is Maria Friedman’s compact, propulsive film of her acclaimed revival staging of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
All of the train’s braking and acceleration came in jerks and shuddering decelerations that threatened to throw them off their perches.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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In the footage, shot on a mobile phone, the inside of the enclosure can be seen as he approaches the tiger - perched on a wooden platform - across a patch of grass.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
A woman was close by talking to him, she said, before "he jumped in and crawled in front of the tiger, where the tiger was perched and just lay there".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Mariam’s family gets confused, however, and parks right in front of the building upon which the Marines are perched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The house itself serves as a time capsule of Old Hollywood glitz and glamour, with sprawling gardens and terraced lawns perched on 8.4 acres overlooking the Bel-Air Country Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was perched on the arm of the sofa.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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We’d progressed from walking in the park to perching across from each other in my living room to sitting side by side on the family room sofa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"One of the responding officers was able to gently coax the bird using food, and the parrot quickly became comfortable, even perching on the officer's hand and shoulder," the airport said in a statement.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
“Atlanta” built a Lynchian house for its “Teddy Perkins” episode, perching a namesake character buried under prosthetics within its dim innards.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
Designed based on perching birds like ravens and crows that frequently switch between air and land, the multifunctional robotic legs allow it to take off autonomously in environments previously inaccessible to winged drones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024
In fact, everything up to this point was preamble—the flight from the citadel, the squeezing down chimneys and perching on brows.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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