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Example Sentences

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When Skarsgård took the stage to accept his award — to the tune of Usher’s “Yeah!,” for some reason — that scene from “Sentimental Value” was almost eerily prescient.

From Salon

He follows the establishment of the Catholic Church’s vast influence over law, politics and culture in the south, while the new nation’s protestant community almost disappeared through assimilation, migration and sometimes persecution.

From The Wall Street Journal

The eldest son of the Shah deposed by the revolution almost half a century ago has been trying to be the leader they lack.

From BBC

For deposit insurance, such a market would almost certainly set rates that reflect leading indicators of risk, such as rapid asset growth, rather than lagging indicators, such as the growth in a bank’s non-performing loans.

From The Wall Street Journal

But I could almost always get what I wanted in a barter.

From Literature