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Example Sentences
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“But if you keep at it for a while, you can get a really good product out of it,” Kanekar added.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
"When you finish a jigsaw you can either look at it and enjoy, or you can smash it up and start again. I didn't want to start again."
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
He worked at it through months of frustration, but one evening, while his wife enjoyed a bridge game with friends, he drove back over to the Labs and tried a different approach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
In my testing, it unblocked everything I threw at it.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
I hardly had time to marvel at it before the barber began to shape the bob, his scissors going snip, snip, snip.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.