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Example Sentences

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Kelty Hearts were dispatched 2-0 in the fifth round, before Matty Todd's early strike and a double from Olly Thomas earned a superb 3-0 win over Aberdeen.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

As Harvard University economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz have documented, in the early 1900s only a small fraction of workers had high-school degrees, and having one earned workers a substantial wage premium.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

They collectively earned hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from voyages that included a stop in Havana, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Offering a layup to politics writers, Drake briefly wonders if the ire he’s earned through decades of digs and questionable interpolations of other artists’ songs is actually antisemitism.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

“I earned it all myself. Collecting recycling, and then I built and sold a chicken coop.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz