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Example Sentences
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AI can help us shop, but what is more human than overspending after getting a big check?
From Barron's
Lower spending signals to bond investors that government may keep its debt issuance intact—an outcome that tends to keep yields in check.
From Barron's
“All your paperwork’s in order. At the moment. I checked.”
From Literature
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When they’d looked after the garden and fished for dinner and checked the beaches for driftwood or bottles or anything else that might have floated in on the tide, Nim had school.
From Literature
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From the time she checked in to the time she checked out, she was either sleeping or lounging.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.