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stands for

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present tense third-person singular of stand for

as in allows

to give permission for or to approve of They would not stand for their children missing curfew.

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as in stands

to put up with (something painful or difficult) The nanny did not stand for whining from the children.

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as in represents

to serve as a material counterpart of He got a tattoo that stood for his love of fishing.

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Recent Examples of stands for Having minds of this caliber eager to participate is the very core of what Serielizados stands for. — Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 The company is currently taking orders for the DS, which stands for Dual Sport, on its website. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026 Oakley also brings a welcome naturalistic feel to a script by Diana Reid, with a strong sense of nature itself but also the reality of economic hardship — or what stands for economic hardship in an Austen novel. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 The program honors female athletes who take consequential stands for fairness, opportunity or safety and provides financial support and access to leadership programming. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The organization took a page out of Elon Musk’s book to deploy an AI tool called M4L AWARE, which stands for Agenda Watch, Alert, Response, and Engage. — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026 The start-up Spin, which stands for Smart Products Infrastructure Network, was established in San Francisco and now operates between the Bay Area and Taipei. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 Aranda drove a Cole’s 2-2 changeup several rows deep into the right-center-field stands for his first career postseason hit. — Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 From 2018 until 2021, Fazio worked for a company called COFCO, which stands for China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

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lives with

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Now the family lives with the anxiety that he could be deported and removed from the family.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
In the commotion, she was briefly separated from her 85-year-old mother, who lives with her.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

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