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Example Sentences

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Simons faced claims the think tank he used to run commissioned a report which looked into the background of journalists.

From BBC

Top military and diplomatic officials often faded to the background.

From The Wall Street Journal

Season 4, however, has turned the salmon from a background indulgence into a full-blown subplot.

From Salon

Museum director Rebecca Yorke said 500 people of all ages and backgrounds visited on one Saturday.

From Barron's

"I stay in the background/hidden, just make the arrangements," he apparently wrote to Epstein in 2011, in one of those emails – and eight years later that's still how he worked.

From BBC