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The increasing use of military drones is but one example.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, for example, could use the particles to identify unwanted impurities in drugs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
All of these attendees were following the example set by those at the top: looking out for themselves and trying to swell their own stash.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
During a police chase, for example, the first helicopter on the scene immediately takes the front position left of the fleeing vehicle, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
For example, ten minutes from now, or twenty or ninety, a rainfall may begin.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Sherman Oaks and Crenshaw are the two examples that I always use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Recent examples of communities taking action to protect land include Daisybank, Lott Meadow and Southcourt Green, in Cheltenham, as well as Juniper Hill Field and Heavens Valley in Stroud.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The show also includes examples from his mid-1980s shift toward more colorful hues, calligraphy-like glyphs and looping lines that collectively confirmed him as one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Instead, those compounds are useful reference points because they are familiar examples of molecules that absorb light very efficiently.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Dull and boring are fine examples of synonyms.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this young wood of Taahauku all these hues and combinations were exampled and repeated by the score.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The change that has taken place in the purpose of the novel and in the manner of treatment of character by the novel writer could not be more clearly exampled than by "Love in Idleness."
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley
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