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Example Sentences
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"I'm a pragmatist, a British pragmatist, applying common sense," the prime minister told us on the plane, saying his desire was to "make Britain face outwards again."
From BBC
The 1869 Chicago home of the police officer Richard Bellinger was built of wood—a common practice at the time, which is part of the reason the city went spectacularly ablaze two years later.
“I hadn’t expected to find so much in common with a sphinx.”
From Literature
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They had to speak German, ironically—the only language they all had in common.
From Literature
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The most common form of pancreatic cancer is adenocarcinoma, which develops in the glandular cells that produce pancreatic juice.
From Science Daily
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