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Example Sentences
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Jonas thinks investors should take advantage of the opportunity to buy shares before Starship Flight 15, which could happen as early as the end of the month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Lhamo, who was born in Shangri-La in 1997, just a few years before its tourist-minded rebranding, still remembers when the city was a one-stoplight town, poor and isolated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Building on last week’s lesson, this soup starts in the oven, where carrots, sweet potatoes, scallions, miso, hot honey and a deliberately assertive amount of spice get deeply caramelized before ever meeting the stockpot.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
He reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, losing to eventual champion Jannik Sinner, but lost in the third round of the French Open before suffering a shock first-round exit at the US Open.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“How did the dinner with your dad’s new girl go? Did you get a Flash about what she’d be like before she came over?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
