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Example Sentences
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“It’s like any other caregiving task. It feels less bad the further you go along. He was actively hurting himself. He had over $1,000 in insufficient-funds fees because he wasn’t keeping track of his spending.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Both of us have been resisting the idea that ‘grief is love with nowhere to go’ and instead, actively putting our grief, our love, into our art,” Falley said in an email exchange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"I feel like it's very active to be running from things and to be not engaging with things in your life... I think that's very actively self-sabotaging," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Indian authorities claim Johal is a member of the KLF and that "he actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
I have his arrows now, a loaded bow, and Finnick at my back, breathing hard but not actively engaged.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
