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Example Sentences

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Those older records are not being treated as proof by themselves.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

“I think if you’re being trained to put IUDs in, you should be trained how to do paracervical blocks as well,” Mody said.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

He added that far too often he was seeing a narrative where young people were being described as "snowflakes or shirkers".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

He would hold them for around three months, for the intermediate stage in their lives called backgrounding, because the animals build up health and immunity before being sold again to feedlots for final fattening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

“Is your boss okay with your being in his office?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold