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On Thursday, the people behind those companies are expected to sit down to have dinner with Xi Jinping.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
"Why do some supermassive black holes blast out radio jets right after shredding a star, while others just sit there looking completely dormant, only to suddenly fire up their jets months or even years later?"
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
"I've had the chance to sit down and just talk the FA through everything that happened," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
A ceramic dog and monkey sit on a golf cart inside the Dodger Stadium landscape team’s shed on Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
I sit, the wagon behind me, trying to gather the right words.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
On TV, Herbert appeared to be looking off into space on the sideline as McDaniel sat chattering beside him, the game mercifully winding down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We sat for almost four hours, so it's been quite a long conversation."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
True, there have been moments in the nation’s martial past when social progress and military resistance sat in uneasy tension.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 2016, when he was the pastor of a 40-member church, he sat down and recorded a four-minute video expressing his frustration with the country’s economic mismanagement.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Before long a steady stream of guests was winding up the narrow staircase to Tante Jans’s rooms where he sat almost lost in a thicket of flowers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
It's hard to see what else the locals need to sate their sporting needs.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Investors regard Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cell as a robust source of power to sate data centers’ endless appetite.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s just enough to sate the palate until next week, when we find ourselves craving a treat once again.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
I always order chicken sate and the green papaya salad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The upper house, inflamed by the ill usage which they had received, were resolved, besides the late king's judges, to except every one who had sitten in any high court of justice.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume
And so they arose and did their homage, and when they were gone Merlin found in every sieges letters of gold that told the knights' names that had sitten therein.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
And over that to mi matiere Of schrifte, why we sitten hiere In privete betwen ous tweie, Now axeth what ther is, I preie.
From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay
And undre the emperoures table, sitten 4 clerkes, that writen alle, that the emperour seythe, be it good, be it evylle.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
Then coming to the well, she had no sooner sitten down, but a golden head came up with a singing note, "Wash me, comb me, lay me down softly."
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
For the executives sitting down with Xi, China can be a customer, a factory floor, a regulator and a rival — sometimes all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
But I’m not sitting there worrying about how high the stack is for the stack’s sake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Now, after a decade of experiments, corrections, and painstaking analysis, the answer was sitting inside a sealed envelope.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
And Pappas, a sitting congressman, should be a perfectly acceptable head of hair to complete the task.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
He was sitting in a shelter, tied to a roof post, without weapons or pack; and even if he got free, the camp was heavily guarded.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
