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Example Sentences

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"They should've done a background check on him. Why not something so simple?"

From BBC

“It has been a challenge going from the scandal to relationship to miscarriage to arrest to being pregnant again,” she says as a sentimental melody lilts in the background.

From Salon

It says the presentations were delivered under previous governments, and that current ministers had focused on making the system fairer, including by reintroducing targeted maintenance grants to support students from lower-income backgrounds.

From BBC

Marlow, 24, has a background in musical comedy and previously starred in Six The Musical.

From BBC

“There were lawyers, there were doctors, there were dentists. They did not have software engineering backgrounds.”

From The Wall Street Journal