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Example Sentences

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The FCC decision doesn’t cover models currently in stores or already purchased—although the commission does have the ability to retroactively add older models to its list of barred equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal

We’d already made a promise to our son, but when we got married, we made one to each other and ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times

“Conditions are unsafe, and first responders are already stretched thin,” Caltrans said in an alert Monday.

From Los Angeles Times

Over 60% of the world's orders this year went to Chinese shipyards, and its navy is already the largest in the world.

From BBC

Yet more than a plot-driven work, this curio plays like a sensorial and surreal trip where a magical staircase to heaven blends with the already hypnotic landscape.

From Los Angeles Times