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Example Sentences
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“They weren’t built to produce tens of gigawatts of capacity in a short amount of time. And now they’re going to have to.”
From Barron's
Instead, they display levels of complexity and information density similar to proto-cuneiform, the earliest known writing system, which appeared around 3,000 B.C.E., tens of thousands of years later.
From Science Daily
Scientists say ancient microbes, or traces of them, could be locked inside Martian ice deposits, preserved for tens of millions of years.
From Science Daily
For example, ten minutes from now, or twenty or ninety, a rainfall may begin.
From Literature
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Every time I got close to one of the cranky old sisters, she puffed up ten times bigger than she actually was and started squawking and pecking.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.