as in sit-down
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
Just days ago, the effort sat in second-to-last place on the 50-spot tally, which ranks the most consumed rock and alternative collections in the country.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
More than a dozen people were arrested on Monday, including 24 people who were taken into custody during a sit-in outside of Trump Tower, CBS New York reported.
—CBS News, 10 June 2025
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Verb
The Fever came into the game against the Wings with a 10-10 record, sitting in the eight spot in the WNBA standings.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
Just days ago, the effort sat in second-to-last place on the 50-spot tally, which ranks the most consumed rock and alternative collections in the country.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
Being Heumann focuses on Heumann (Madeley), who leads over a hundred disabled people in a 28-day sit-in at the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
More than a dozen people were arrested on Monday, including 24 people who were taken into custody during a sit-in outside of Trump Tower, CBS New York reported.
—CBS News, 10 June 2025
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Verb
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Saw it in a sports bar and one of the Alabama fans just put his hands on his head surrender-cobra style, and with his mouth hanging open, walked out of the bar without making a sound and never came back.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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The clip shows a man walking out of an apartment building in the Ukrainian capital in broad daylight.—
Victoria Butenko,
CNN Money,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.—
Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
Verb
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The union hopes to walk away from the Indy meeting with more confidence that a deal will be done before the deadline.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
11 July 2025
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Once in place, the walking robots moved Huayanli 33 feet a day, or 0.0003 miles per hour, to the west then to the north, like a knight’s move in chess.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.—
Dan Barry,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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The order also directed an investigation of the job action, which was a violation of the Taylor Law barring certain state employees from striking.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Even top producers should expect a slowdown in the first few months.—
Drew Gurley,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The seeming slowdown in hate speech monitoring comes as antisemitic harassment, vandalism, and assault are on the rise in the United States and globally, the Anti-Defamation League reported, with 2024 deemed a peak year for antisemitism.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 July 2025
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