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Example Sentences
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When the New York Times profiled Ms. Rodríguez as a “moderate,” a backlash erupted: Thousands on X ridiculed the paper for whitewashing her bloodstained record.
Four years before she arrived, the Kinneloa fire, sparked by a campfire, erupted in the same mountains.
From Los Angeles Times
Protests erupted on December 28 when shopkeepers in capital Tehran staged a strike over high prices and economic stagnation.
From Barron's
The first trial in the Mississippi welfare scandal is set to begin this week, nearly six years after it erupted in one of America’s poorest states.
Limón’s own interest in environmentalism was sparked, she said, by the wildfires that erupted in the nearby Santa Ynez Mountains and forced school classes to stay indoors, she said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
