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As all this was going on, Chad would sometimes sit in the corridor outside the courtroom, playing with the toy cars that lawyers used to explain auto accidents to juries.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
"They told me to sit up and not touch anything and then said I was under arrest for breaching the Official Secrets Act," Cash says.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
At the WSJ Leadership Institute’s Board of Directors Council Summit in Palm Beach on Monday, Nvidia’s crisis consumed conversations among attendees, many of whom sit on public-company boards, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Rates on new 30-year mortgages, for example, now sit around 7.12%, keeping the U.S. housing market on ice.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
I sit, the wagon behind me, trying to gather the right words.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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“We just sat there and were, like, ‘Yeah, this sucks.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
He sat down with his most important supplier, a husband-and-wife team in China producing 35% of his inventory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Cornerback Trent McDuffie, who sat out against the Commanders because of a back injury, is making progress and “hopefully” will be available against the Cardinals, McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
The trial also heard from witness Dinaria Soares who was sat across from footballer Jonathan Gjoshe, who jurors have heard was the first person attacked by Williams on the train.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
We cried for joy when we heard, and Mutti sat us ’round the table for a family moment.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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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
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
While the network has tried to sate its audience, no “Ultimate Girls Trip” or “Simple Life”-esque spinoff has quite hit the mark like “RHONY” classic could.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
He was merry, and we sate in an office in the warehouse while he feigned instruction and I feigned learning.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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.
Business, being carried on with great unanimity, was soon despatched; and after they had sitten near two months, the king, in a speech full of the most gracious expressions, thought proper to dissolve them.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume
And so they arose and did their homage, and when they were gone Merlin found in every sieges letters of gold that told the knights' names that had sitten therein.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Then coming to the well, she had no sooner sitten down, but a golden head came up with a singing note, "Wash me, comb me, lay me down softly."
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
The upper house, inflamed by the ill usage which they had received, were resolved, besides the late king's judges, to except every one who had sitten in any high court of justice.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume
Apple then was sitting on a huge cash pile—about $81.5 billion of cash and marketable securities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
“What would you rather have sitting here, a live anecdote or a dead statistic?” asked one of them.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
This season, Maresca and his staff have looked to mould him into more of a sitting midfielder after the departure of Rodri in the summer.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
One night after sitting out with low back tightness, Doncic struggled with his shot, but reached double-digit assists with eight rebounds and five steals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Since the regatta and the grand opening of the OldMill, the marina almost never has canoes sitting empty, and there hasn’t been a night that the OldMill hasn’t been packed.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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