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Example Sentences
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In a couple of quick paragraphs, he said Iraq's ruler Saddam Hussein should comply with the United Nations resolutions to pull out of Kuwait.
From BBC
For once, I didn’t agonize over word choice or cross out whole paragraphs and try again.
From Literature
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The tone of the marketing campaign bid request itself echoes that message, with its introductory paragraph pulled directly from Newsom’s State of the State speech in January.
From Los Angeles Times
The first paragraph of the agreement contained the core of the deal: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
That single, thirteen-letter spirit word was translated by a medium’s assistant into a paragraph containing forty-five words of English!
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.