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Example Sentences
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“The oil shock has dashed hopes across the developed world that persistent elevated inflation would resolve itself even with easy policy,” Unlimited Funds CEO Bob Elliott wrote to clients on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
But across two legs of last-16 action, those suggestions of dominance have been dashed with just two teams - Arsenal and Liverpool - progressing to the quarter-finals.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Although that meant breaking out flip-flops and scheduling picnics earlier than normal, it has also dashed hopes of a superbloom in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Hopes to install wind turbines were also dashed "because they interfere with radar and border surveillance systems".
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
“See? She did not forget!” she thought, but her excitement was dashed in the next sentence.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.