lain
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Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
A rich copper belt in the north of the country has lain fallow since Macri crashed and burned in 2018.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
And yet they had "lain undiscovered for some time" in their home in Radford, Nottingham, last May.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2025
The tenements at Clune Park in the Inverclyde town of Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but have lain mostly abandoned for years.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025
Frodo and Sam beat first upon the tree-trunk where Pippin had lain.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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