despite the fact

Example Sentences

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She felt they had been forced to live a "legal fiction", despite the fact their "de facto parent" was again their birth mother.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

This despite the fact that the leak actually made a strong case for robust cybersecurity defenses in a world where AI tools can give hackers new superpowers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Burden’s marriage began to settle into the traditional gender roles of homemaker and breadwinner, despite the fact that it was Burden who had financed their lifestyle.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"Standard computational studies of photocatalysts typically focus on ground-state properties and neglect excited-state effects, despite the fact that photocatalysis is inherently driven by photoexcited charge carriers. Specifically, we employ many-body perturbation theory methods."

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

I was relieved that the flagpole wasn’t as heavy as it looked, and I carried it easily, despite the fact that the night was windy and rainy.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles