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Example Sentences
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For over three decades, it was held the Saturday afternoon right before the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times
"I have had to meet his needs before my own," she says.
From BBC
During the investigation, BB had also changed her story - initially accusing two other men, before naming Benguit in her third statement to the police.
From BBC
Retail prices started falling beginning in October, with the biggest drops before Black Friday, Harvard’s Cavallo said.
Rwanda denies supporting M23 and says its troops are in eastern Congo for “defensive measures” against a rebel group formed by Hutu extremists who orchestrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda before fleeing to Congo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
