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No president has removed a sitting Fed governor in the central bank's 113-year history.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

"If we look at the social changes of the recent past, those social changes did not come from people sitting in parliament; they came from the streets," they said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then Scott had the inning of his Dodgers career in the eighth — sitting down the Braves’ 3-4-5 hitters with a nasty array of sliders and fastballs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then there are passengers like the one sitting several rows behind him on a recent flight from Cape Town to Doha.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

They would gather around the sitting room windows to watch them, often for hours on end.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Restaurants often want to fill seats outside of peak lunch and dinner hours so opting for earlier or later sittings can be rewarded by a cheaper bill.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

It’s a trim book—you can read it in a couple of sittings or on a long flight—but it’s perhaps best enjoyed in small doses, a chapter or two at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The first season ended in April and dropped weekly, but waiting to gulp down episodes in a couple of sittings may be more rewarding than taking it in over a couple of months.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

In a sense Opie does traditional portrait sittings, where the subject sits patiently still for the photographer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

He read the whole thing in ten sittings in his booth at Day’s and began pondering the whale’s nature at an early juncture.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson