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Example Sentences
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Gates said he was aware of some “18-month thing” that had limited Epstein’s travel but said he didn’t properly check his background.
She creates levity in the videos by having colorful animated backgrounds, through the use of puppets and by singing songs throughout.
From Los Angeles Times
You can hear the differences in lives and backgrounds and upbringing, of men and women in the ’60s, of class and Jim Crow, it’s all in there.
From Salon
"The most obvious indicator of device quality is the shape of the resonances and we want them to be deep and narrow, like a needle piercing through the signal background," Erikson said.
From Science Daily
That background explains why Congress wrote Section 122 as it did.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
