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Example Sentences
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To start, SpaceX would need to launch about 200,000 satellites into orbit each year, assuming that each satellite can last five years before being replaced, the analysts said.
From MarketWatch
The handler, who went by the alias Hummin Lee, assumed an indispensable role in Rogers’s life by helping the couple, prosecutors said.
Mr. Newsom’s budget, released last month, assumes that a Medicaid provider tax on managed-care organizations will remain in place through December.
His insistence that no one is safe until everyone is safe, can seem to portend a future in which no one will ever be safe, though as a teacher I assume he’s more sanguine.
From Los Angeles Times
He will succeed Bob Iger, who is wrapping up his second stint as CEO — a role he originally assumed in 2005.
From MarketWatch
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