dwelt

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While Roberts’s report dwelt mostly on historical anecdotes, it contained one concrete sign of the impact of Trump’s signature issue: immigration enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit who dwelt in the waterholes and came out in the evenings when the mists rose, dressed in grey, with white hair and a long tangled beard.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Although the globe's top financiers dwelt little on the conflict, speaking about topics such as artificial intelligence, the economic fallout of war combined with record debts as rates rise created a bleak backdrop.

From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2023

He thinks about the video Caitlin made, how barely anyone in it dwelt on football.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Here dwelt the great and good dead, heroes, poets, priests, and all who had made men remember them by helping others.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton