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Example Sentences
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We need to get him out the door before this merger becomes official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Forty-three years had passed since a woman had run a sub-1:54 800m before this season.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
We hadn’t met in person before this breakfast — just three days earlier, we had been DMing about the feature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Team boss Frederic Vasseur, who said he would talk to the drivers before discussing this in the media, has some smoothing out to do before this weekend's race in Madrid.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
As they began their work, none of these dedicated individuals had any idea that before this extraordinary excavation was over, more than nine years of effort and 7,500 hours of diving time would be required.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
