See sit with on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019 May 13, Will Coldwell, quoting Mo Gawdat, “Anger is an energy: how to turn fury into a force for good”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2023 February 28, David Canfield, “Frances McDormand and Sarah Polley Just Want to Keep Talking”, in Vanity Fair:",
"text": "After what felt like 20 instances, Polley recalls, “I kind of snapped” at Logan Airport in Boston. “I just went, ‘If I told you there was a movie called 12 Angry Men, would you go and see it?’ And he was like, ‘Maybe.’ I said, ‘Well, I just want you to sit with that.’[…]”",
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"ref": "2023 June 20, Kathleen Walsh, “Bebe Rexha Updates Fans After Phone-Throwing Injury: ‘I’m Good’”, in Glamour:",
"text": "[…] the suspected phone thrower, Nicolas Malvagna, allegedly had this to say for himself: “I was trying to see if I could hit her with the phone at the end of the show because it would be funny.” According to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, per the Daily News, this is what Malvagna told a witness who spoke to police. I’m gonna let us all just sit with that for a sec.",
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