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Example Sentences

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Still, don’t count on gold to always find support from changes in the geopolitical landscape.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Across the city, certain battleground precincts were so tight that no single candidate had a lead as of Wednesday’s count, on which The Times’ analysis was based.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

I, meanwhile, can’t count on my fingers and toes how many times I’ve been to “that place.”

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

“There’s never been a winter like this, where we had virtually no precipitation, very little snow, very little rain. We count on that snowpack from the mountains,” he said.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

In the beginning, of Marina Raskova’s thousand recruits, only about fifty of them could count on starting out as pilots.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein