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Example Sentences
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“The first is to wear hiking boots and long pants so that, should there be an encounter, that can hopefully provide some protection against a rattlesnake,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
He strongly cautioned against wandering into areas of tall grass where rattlesnakes could be coiled up and noted that if hikers do encounter a snake the best thing to do is back away slowly and avoid contact.
From Los Angeles Times
Earlier this month MPs voted against the proposed change but peers insisted on the amendment which would give ministers a year to decide which social media platforms should be unavailable to under-16s.
From BBC
The verdicts threaten long-held protections for internet companies, potentially opening the way for mass litigation against social media platforms.
That is the view of some legal experts, but also the stated position of Meta itself, which argued heading into the trials in California and New Mexico that for juries to endorse the theory of the cases against them would challenge their ability to keep serving products used daily by billions of people.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
