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Recent Examples of sit-down
Unlike his sit-down restaurant in Peoria, the new concept is more casual.
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Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
Mobay Cafe is a sit-down restaurant with a patio and bar.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
There are also many talk show interviews, some enlightening and some as brutally uncomfortable as the Susskind sit-down.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
Pellicano’s portrait comes into focus through interviews with reporters and victims, archival photographs and footage, audio recordings of his phone calls and eventually a sit-down with the man himself, who was released from prison in 2019.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
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Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
Mobay Cafe is a sit-down restaurant with a patio and bar.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
There are also many talk show interviews, some enlightening and some as brutally uncomfortable as the Susskind sit-down.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
Pellicano’s portrait comes into focus through interviews with reporters and victims, archival photographs and footage, audio recordings of his phone calls and eventually a sit-down with the man himself, who was released from prison in 2019.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sit-down
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers said that nearly 2,400 mental health workers had launched their job action after Kaiser management had turned down proposals that the union said would stanch employee turnover and improve care.Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume.Jay Peters, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
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That is being felt at the corporate level, of course, with speculation about deals involving Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate, or Comcast’s cable channels, but also at the production company level, where the slowdown is being felt most acutely.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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When Is the Earliest the 2024 Election Can Be Called? Election Day has previously morphed into election week in 2020 with an influx of mail-in and early ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing major slowdowns in vote counting and reporting election results.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Lewis helped organize sit-ins to desegregate the city’s lunch counters in 1960.Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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Artist Nan Goldin and filmmaker Laura Poitras were among two hundred activists affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) who were arrested following an October 14 sit-in the group staged in support of Palestine outside the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan.News Desk, Artforum, 16 Oct. 2024
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Fortune Making robo-taxis a real business A go-slow approach is helping Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, as faster-moving competitors like Uber and GM’s Cruise stall after high-profile accidents.Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 May 2024
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Kyiv has often been the most vocal critic of the go-slow approach to delivering aid.Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
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But those kinds of sympathy strikes are allowed in most of Europe, and thus make general strikes across broad swaths of those economies far more frequent.Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
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An official from an association that represents local car repair shops has also raised concerns that some of its members are being hit hard by the sympathy strikes, which prevent them from carrying out any repairs.Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
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Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
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On Wednesday, the City Council voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Baggett’s family members. — TRANSIT TRAUMA: Days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns, L.A.’s transit network continued to experience a string of violent behavior.Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
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“Sit-down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sit-down. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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