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Example Sentences

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Davidson referenced a New York Times article about trouble with their business venture, but said, “I cant spend $5 on a paywall when I have a kid on the way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

“I thought, ‘I cant let go, I can’t let go of her’.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

“Trying to do the least with the most, him being 58. and he doesn’t want to help me financially. also he turns everything on you cant take ownership for anything,” said another.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there,” says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023

Like I say it’s not that I object to so much; maybe she cant help that, it’s because she hasn’t even got enough consideration for her own family to have any discretion.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner