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Recent Examples of sit
Norway sat off during the second half, holding their 4-5-1 shape, and the Ivory Coast equaliser came about from a system switch and double sub.
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Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Those terminals now sit ready, but long-term contracting and new upstream investment remain hampered by mixed policy signals on the future role of gas.
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David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Students submit their test scores, transcripts, a personal essay, two letters of recommendation from teachers and sit for an interview.
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Austin Horn
july 1,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Frederick Douglass was invited only to sit onstage, not to speak.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
1 July 2026
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Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Those terminals now sit ready, but long-term contracting and new upstream investment remain hampered by mixed policy signals on the future role of gas.
—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Students submit their test scores, transcripts, a personal essay, two letters of recommendation from teachers and sit for an interview.
—
Austin Horn
july 1,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Frederick Douglass was invited only to sit onstage, not to speak.
—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
1 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit
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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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Barin is the hotel’s high-end teppanyaki restaurant, seating 10 people at the counter and up to 16 in booths lining a long mural hand-drawn on gold leaf depicting Osaka’s history.
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The Porsche Taycan is designed to seat four and has an optional fifth seat for the rear row.
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The pilot program has laid bare a host of questions about the role of AI in medicine, including how it should be regulated, whether doctors should be able to veto it, and what kind of safety measures are needed to protect patients.
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During his 24 years on the Board of Supervisors, Haggerty’s vision of a connected Bay Area laid the groundwork for some of the largest infrastructure projects under construction today.
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And as things stand, San Francisco’s bullpen could desperately use someone like the submariner.
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Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record.
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This can be avoided by squatting, stretching and loosening up your joints before jumping.
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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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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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But that kind of partnership also spawned because of their circumstances both with their alliance and everything that happened afterwards.
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His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.
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There are nods to the environmental devastation wrought by the cattle industry that dominated Southern California in the first half of the 19th century, as well as the Faustian bargain struck by Indigenous people who converted to Catholicism.
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That match was held before the game in Kansas City, and each time Cape Verde scored, there were cheers from the Colombia supporters at Arrowhead Stadium.
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“Sit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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