Example Sentences

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After my role in “August: Osage County” in 2013, I seemed to be taken more seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Scorsese’s examination of the 1920s Osage murders — a grim study of greed and corruption — felt like a definitive statement on themes that have long consumed the director.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

At nearly 1.5 million acres, the Osage Nation acts as one proving ground for CATALOG's technology and techniques.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which is up for best picture, tells the story of the persecution of the Osage Nation in the 1920s.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024

As the first sunlight burned through the thin, blue mist and radiated off the blades, a prayer leader said that the Osage were a “humble people, asking for your help.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann