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Example Sentences
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There are a million and one reasons to love Dolly Parton but for women of a certain age, her role as Doralee in ‘9 to 5’ tops the list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Those limits include a stricter process to verify a user’s age that requires Meta to meet a certain threshold of accuracy, and a two-hour daily limit on its platforms if a user is under 18.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
There’s a certain inevitable logic to following up a book about hosting meaningful gatherings with a book about interpersonal conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"They may adopt different functions based on certain cues in the microenvironment and in the tissue, and differentiate into a certain kind of sub-population," Sunwoo said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one’s birthday cake.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
