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He installed himself courtside, the Windows Clippy among the die-hards, leaping from his seat after dunks and wiggling like one of those inflatable tubes at a car wash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The couple's 19-year-old daughter Parveet was in the front passenger seat and their son Princedeep, 10, was sleeping in the back seat beside his father.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Tyler is more of a known quantity than his predecessor Albert Manifold, having joined BP’s board nearly 18 months ago and sat in the chair’s seat since Manifold’s acrimonious departure in May,” AJ Bell says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
There was a time, the woman said, when rolling down the road meant perching on her husband’s back seat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I really don’t think anyone’s gonna want to be in the seat next to me.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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However, party leaders will not know if they have enough seats to govern until they see which of the smaller parties get into the state parliament.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
But this year’s complaints recall another era of New York society, when the best seats at the opera were as much about being seen in the box as seeing what was happening onstage.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Both sides are depending on the fans to absorb the endless salary spiral that ownership passes on to those in the seats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The business-class seats are similar to those I flew on the airline’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Philadelphia to London a year ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
We rushed up to the box office and he paid for our ten-cent seats.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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More than 50 people pack the gallery most days, with even more seated in an overflow room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Then Curry, undulating ever so slightly, delivers his first lines in a cavernous register, seated someplace between a purr and a growl.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Times of London called limiting alcohol sales to seated customers “foolish puritanism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Jump as high as you can from a seated position as your arms move down and backward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But from his seat across the hibachi, Danny Moses watched and wondered about the man Lippmann had so carefully seated next to Eisman.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The barber chair sits in the middle of the bus, with windows all around and extra seating at the back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Adjacent to the kitchen there are several seating areas surrounded by floral wallpaper.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Our customers told us that comfort matters, which was why we'd been working on plans to improve seating on Thameslink services," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Gaggles of British tourists with fur coats and spray tans jostled for seating, clutching their outerwear to their chests for space as they scouted for a table to open up.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Rachael glanced at her uncle; he nodded and she grudgingly returned, seating herself as before.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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