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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toconsider(something)slowlyandcarefully, toreflect on.2019May 13, Will Coldwell, quotingMo Gawdat, “Anger is an energy: how to turn fury into a force for good”, inThe Guardian[1]:The first step to managing anger is to acknowledge it.Sit withit. Treat yourself like a child that is a little emotional. It’s OK to feel that emotion – it’s not the emotion that destroys us or makes us, it’s what we do with it.2023February 28, David Canfield, “Frances McDormand and Sarah Polley Just Want to Keep Talking”, inVanity Fair[2]: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 called12 Angry Men, would you go and see it?’ And he was like, ‘Maybe.’ I said, ‘Well, I just want you tosit withthat.’[…]”2023June 20, Kathleen Walsh, “Bebe Rexha Updates Fans After Phone-Throwing Injury: ‘I’m Good’”, inGlamour[3]:[…]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 justsit withthat for a sec.; (informal)To accept, observe and experience a phenomenon, usually an emotion or feeling.My therapist said I shouldsit withthese fears and see how it feels to let myself experience them.; (idiomatic)To be harmonious with (something).I'm afraid his personality doesn'tsit withthe rest of the team.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seesit,with.
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