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Example Sentences

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However, I have a modest proposal: Medical providers should charge a late-arrival fee for patients who are late, as they often do for no-shows.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

I don’t like sitting in the audience laughing at somebody’s name or what they do for a living, or who they with.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

And we better hope they do, for the sake of so many other media enterprises Carr will undoubtedly pursue and hope to censor.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

Officials gave the dinner a lower security classification than they do for events of national or international significance, another person said, such as the presidential inauguration or the State of the Union address.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

I still have all my subjects to do for homework today, except for science.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy