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[sit] / sɪt /




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The more I sit with the history of paper sons, and of U.S. immigration writ large, the better I understand him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Then sit back and watch the general managers, player agents, TV broadcasters, advertisers and product endorsers scramble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Earlier this month, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters, the Venice Commission, said Nawrocki should swear-in the judges to allow them to sit on the court's bench.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Microsoft’s cloud growth seemed to sit better with Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Father, Betsie, and I found places to sit on a narrow bench that ran around the sides.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Orban chose cheese, Vučiċ meat, when they sat down to a quick lunch of traditional burek pastries at a small, popular town centre bakery in Subotica almost a year ago.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Arab parties have only once formally sat in an Israeli government, when Raam leader Mansour Abbas joined a short-lived coalition that lasted from 2021 to 2022.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Because that expedition was after invertebrates, the fish was mistakenly catalogued into the invertebrate collection of the South Australian Museum, where it sat unrecognized for years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Pamela Paul sat in on the class to discover why old-school learning is suddenly so popular.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Then with a sigh she let out the breath, set the glass on the sideboard, and sat down.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s just enough to sate the palate until next week, when we find ourselves craving a treat once again.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

That led him to the petroleum industry, where working on oil rigs in the punishing North Sea and near conflict zones helped sate his risk appetite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Rowan ate with rare gluttony that morning, for once allowing himself to fully sate his appetite, and as he ate, he stole a few glances at Citra.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Ye hae sitten your time, as mony a gude hen has done.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

And over that to mi matiere Of schrifte, why we sitten hiere In privete betwen ous tweie, Now axeth what ther is, I preie.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my seat, even as I overcame and have sitten with my father, in his seat.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

Now then, sir, sitten doon and mak theeself comfortable. 

From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris

Not even the wild Highlands have sitten through so many calls as we have done here in Galloway and the South.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

We’re doing OK, but we don’t have $40,000 sitting around anywhere.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

"I have students who are sitting the baccalaureate at the end of the year, and several hundred thousand of them haven't attended classes for four or five weeks," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Haley Stevens, a sitting congresswoman who lost out on the Democratic Senate nomination to El-Sayed, made a surprise appearance alongside the Republican candidate Mike Rogers at a church on Sunday.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

To be clear, I’m not sitting here rubbing my hands with glee, thinking I’m immune to dementia or a heart attack and I’ll stay young forever.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

At the farthest table, a woman sitting alone slapped the tabletop.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith


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