sitting

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Also, private-equity firms are sitting on record numbers of portfolio companies they need to eventually sell or take public, including many software firms threatened by the rise of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

On Wednesday, Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend Supreme Court arguments in person.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

He defeated Chapman, a sitting MSP in the region.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

We were sitting in Tante Jans’s front room with Kik and some other young men, who had made us a delivery of forged travel-permits too late to get home by curfew.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom