stand for
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Players and spectators are expected to stand for it, if they can, and refrain from moving around.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
And far-right Senator Pauline Hanson said "violence against any elected representative, whoever they are and whatever they stand for, is never acceptable in Australia".
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
They stand for something bigger than themselves, but they also stand for themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
And a Black athlete empowered to stand for Black people is an athlete who should expect to be persecuted, like Curt Flood, whom Kaepernick mentioned.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
“What if people think that the three Fs stand for ‘fee-fi-fo’?”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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