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been stands
verb
To position or be positioned physically. To support oneself on the feet in an erect position. To rise to one's feet; to stand up. To remain motionless. To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation. To place in an upright or standing position. To occupy or hold a place; to be situated or located. To measure when erect on the feet.
Exact(3)
If there had been stands, he might have jumped into the crowd, Green Bay Packer-style.
Unaccountably, one finds here and there the traces of some more pretentious building square stones and sections of column that must once have been the parts of a portico or colonnade, and two queerly placed bases of columns set close together in the ground, as if they had been stands for something.
Five blocks to our south, on the ridge of Murray Hill, there had been stands of white pine, ten to fifteen stories tall which, ideal for ships' masts, were doomed, well before any Coliseum Books could sprout up, and then close, in their place.
Similar(57)
We had never been stood up before.
I've been stood up, let down, messed around.
The world trade order has been stood on its ear.
Now the social order has been stood on its head.
Everything has been stood on its head".
There are stands of eucalyptus, sycamore, oak, cottonwood.
"But they don't understand what is stands for.
It's stands up.
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