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Example Sentences
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last month granted the venture preliminary conditional approval.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The court said "both sides bore equal responsibility for the breakdown of the marriage" and therefore granted the divorce but rejected Lee's claim for damages, she added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Erik and Lyle Menendez have been granted an early parole hearing after their denial last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ukraine is an EU candidate country, a status it was granted on condition it mounted a credible fight against corruption.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
By 1624, eleven years after he had made public his discovery that Venus had a full set of phases, Galileo could take it for granted that no competent person would defend the Ptolemaic system.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
