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Example Sentences

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Many are retreating back into the shadows as they fear previously routine tasks, such as traveling across states, filing taxes and seeking medical care.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Making noise, online and in local government meetings, is where organizers are succeeding across the country in their goals of stopping new center construction.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

Looking across the sector, and including European investment banks in the comparison, the U.S. investment banks are not cheap.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

Jonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, overseeing coverage of the world's second-largest economy across politics, economics, business, technology and society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Their squawking carried through Deadwood, across the busy road, and into the forest beyond, causing scampering critters and lumbering mammals to rise to their hind legs.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman