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Recent Examples of sat
Levi Jones, a 33-year-old business owner, pulled up to Sacred Eye Tattoos in Hollywood last week and sat for eight hours getting a photorealistic black-and-white portrait of Mangione on his leg.
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Amanda Rosa,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.
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Angel Saunders,
People.com,
24 Dec. 2024
This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.
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Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Dec. 2024
Cold temperatures did not stop two dogs in Colorado from fetching two tennis balls that sat perfectly on top of a lake.
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Ahjané Forbes,
USA TODAY,
11 Dec. 2024
In the 2023 World Baseball Classic, his fastball sat 100 mph.
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Joseph Epstein,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Which made for an ugly game on Saturday, when Towns sat due to what the team listed as patellar tendinopathy in his right knee.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
8 Dec. 2024
The minimalist dress also featured a black belt, which sat above Lawrence's baby bump.
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Lori A Bashian Fox News,
Fox News,
7 Dec. 2024
Amanda Rosa,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.
—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
24 Dec. 2024
This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.
—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Dec. 2024
Cold temperatures did not stop two dogs in Colorado from fetching two tennis balls that sat perfectly on top of a lake.
—
Ahjané Forbes,
USA TODAY,
11 Dec. 2024
In the 2023 World Baseball Classic, his fastball sat 100 mph.
—
Joseph Epstein,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Which made for an ugly game on Saturday, when Towns sat due to what the team listed as patellar tendinopathy in his right knee.
—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
8 Dec. 2024
The minimalist dress also featured a black belt, which sat above Lawrence's baby bump.
—
Lori A Bashian Fox News,
Fox News,
7 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sat
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Police said Alston and her boyfriend, Halley Tejada, gained access to the Kips Bay apartment Vitels had just moved into on 31st Street and squatted there for two days.
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Making a place known Just before noon the following day, Susan Washko squatted over a white plastic tub beside the stream that runs through Fiftymile Canyon.
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The Image That Endures While Americans may remember the striking image of a silent president seated in the Supreme Court, what matters more is what happened afterwards.
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Technicians seated along an assembly line were fastening artificial tendons to the fingers to link them with actuators in the wrist.
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But the arrival of Buc-ee's supercharged the trend and spawned imitators like Wally's, which has three 50,000-square-foot locations in the Midwest, with plans for more.
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In 2011, Impractical Jokers was launched on Tru TV, and the long-running series has spawned a feature film and several spinoffs.
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On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.
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By the start of the new millennium, with China only beginning its rise, there stood just a single superpower in the world.
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The fall occurred just hours after Calleja set a personal best in the Gold Coast half-marathon, 7 News reported.
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Ngo was conscious to include not only female designers (historically underrepresented in cutlery design), but also those who would use the brief to make a typical Western cutlery set more applicable to different cultures.
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In his fifth-inning at-bat, Stephenson was on the other side of two successful challenges by Rutschman that put him down 1-2 in the count instead of up 3-0.
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Go on, put the 131-cube (2,147 cc) monster engine into that one.
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The space is cozy and laid back, with an atmosphere that encourages guests to settle in for a drink or two.
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This new process will, instead, see composite parts laid together before being cured together in situ.
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There was a casual feel in Memorial Auditorium in the hour before game time, as children kicked a ball around on the auditorium’s sloping floor.
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There was the majestic no-doubter that landed more than halfway up the left-field bleachers, a majestic blast that evoked memories of Andrés Galarraga.
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“Sat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sat. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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