as in to store
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
be sure to lay in enough food for the long Alaska winter
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When Carolina Chickadees moved into an area inhabited by Black-caps, the percentage of eggs laid in local nests that hatched successfully would fall; in a different area, as Carolinas became dominant and the proportion of mixed pairs fell, the hatching rate increased.
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Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
While seemingly laid in a random pattern, the elements would actually gather to form the site's center — a nod to the way journalists coalesce disparate facts to form a story.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The egg the Browns laid in front of their loyal-to-a-fault home fans in the first game of the season raised questions about the team’s approach to the start of the season.
—Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Her own mother, who’d slept with her wedding dress laid in bed beside her, had died a slow and bitter death of lung cancer, leaving in her bungalow an obsessive amount of magazines, old documents, and cheap jewelry that took six months to clear.
—Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Rebecca Heisman, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
While seemingly laid in a random pattern, the elements would actually gather to form the site's center — a nod to the way journalists coalesce disparate facts to form a story.
—Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The egg the Browns laid in front of their loyal-to-a-fault home fans in the first game of the season raised questions about the team’s approach to the start of the season.
—Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Her own mother, who’d slept with her wedding dress laid in bed beside her, had died a slow and bitter death of lung cancer, leaving in her bungalow an obsessive amount of magazines, old documents, and cheap jewelry that took six months to clear.
—Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Instead, write it down on paper and store it in a locked box, safe, or other secure physical location.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a single old pipe, so some heads out to sea.Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Store a phone or passport in the double welt pocket on either side, and stash keys in the zip closure on the right pocket.Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
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To keep Halloween candy out of the seeking mouths and paws of pets, Apolo recommends keeping Halloween candy stashed somewhere pets can't reach, like a high cabinet.Kelli Bender, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Some players will lay up short of the fairway bunkers to leave themselves a comfortable full club into the green.Brody Miller, The Athletic, 10 Apr. 2024
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And with female cane toads capable of laying up to 30,000 eggs at a time, their numbers multiplied at an almost unstoppable pace.Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Lay in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lay%20in. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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