lie (down)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lie (down)
Verb
  • The ballot must have been mailed or dropped off at any official drop box​​ ​across the state by 8 p.m. local time on Election Day.
    ABC NEWS, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This past weekend, the state Republican party filed lawsuits over the county's decision to allow people to drop off absentee ballots after the Friday deadline.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The wording in those posts were often couched, appearing to be an insider’s intuition.
    Katie Strang, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Some American journalists and politicians couched their desire to round up and imprison Japanese Americans in humanitarian terms: to protect them from potential mob violence.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • But really, my question here is this: Do doctors really sleep shirtless in the on-call room?
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The designer’s team instead partitioned it, with a living area separate from the sleeping area.
    Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The carbon buckets don’t recline much and are mounted high enough in the cabin that the top of the windshield frame will block a straight line of sight for taller drivers.
    Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The business class cabin features a 25-inch-wide chair that can be reclined into a two-meter-long bed.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The Peacock and Prime Video options felt like a decent enough compromise: the comforts of a traditional Election Night experience (correspondents reporting, analysts opining, anchors announcing results) packaged in a way that nodded toward the destabilizing future.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Jones’ total of seven Academy Award nominations include best picture, original score and original song for 1985’s The Color Purple, which received 11 Academy Award nods overall.
    Jennifer Frederick, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Lie (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lie%20%28down%29. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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