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Example Sentences

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As genre names go, “post-punk” is particularly hard to pin down, but it’s generally used to describe an array of underground rock forms that emerged in the late ’70s, mostly in the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal

The amended indictment, released on Saturday, only includes the phrase twice and now describes it as a “patronage system” and removed the explicit reference that these officials are literal members of the cartel.

From Salon

Among the changes to the report were substantial adjustments to how the department’s pre-deployment decisions were described.

From Los Angeles Times

As the civil war between Sudan's army and RSF rebels approaches its third year, the scale of suffering has seen it described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis by the UN and aid agencies.

From BBC

The advisers described this as an "error of judgement in the moment and not deliberate and in that sense inadvertent".

From BBC