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Example Sentences
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That would place them tens of millions of years before the oldest definitive macroscopic animal fossils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
"We're the best state in America," he said before acknowledging: "But success has gotten expensive."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
With just a few hours on the remote archipelago before flying back to Fiji, there was a rush from organisers to get in as many events as possible.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
In 2018, years before Jane Doe stepped onto campus, then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance wrote to Gov. Andrew Cuomo complaining about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Joey’s friend Lulu Reyes received the same medal the year before.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
