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Recent Examples of sit in
Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
From left: Charles Kim Haskell sits in a hospital wheelchair; and steps on a treadmill with monitors.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The following month, factory workers mounted a sit-in that lasted 77 days, which led to violent and fiery clashes with police.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 29 June 2025
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Verb
The longer wet sheets sit in the machine, the sooner bacteria start to thrive between folds.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
From left: Charles Kim Haskell sits in a hospital wheelchair; and steps on a treadmill with monitors.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
Noun
The protests included a lengthy sit-in at the University Chancellor’s office, and saw four students arrested, alongside one reporter.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The following month, factory workers mounted a sit-in that lasted 77 days, which led to violent and fiery clashes with police.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit in
Verb
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Their nominations went to the Senate last week uncontested by the Democratic minority, whose members walked out to protest how Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accelerated a vote on Trump’s most controversial and undeserving choice, Emil Bove III, to join the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
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The champion walked out to the Harlem Gospel Ensemble singing his entrance music.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
21 July 2025
Noun
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
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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
Verb
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Travis was was last seen walking on the 5000 block of North 49th Street.—
Jessica Van Egeren,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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If the pavement is too hot, the American Humane Society recommends purchasing dog shoes to protect the their paws or walking them on grass.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
24 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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In its half-year results, released last week, French rival Lagardère Travel Retail also noted that the air traffic slowdown in the U.S. had negatively impacted revenue there by 1%.—
Kevin Rozario,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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To be sure, with the Club having a position in both companies, Azure’s recent acceleration is encouraging — and at the same time, concerns about the slowdown in AWS’s growth rate are overblown.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
1 Aug. 2025
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