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Example Sentences

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People are likely to eat smaller and fewer meals, but not necessarily healthier ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

With fewer disruptions, electrons can travel more freely across the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

“If anything, we need additional funding to cover rising costs, not fewer, to maintain our current momentum,” the agency said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

There are fewer people in the bureau, which has offices dispersed across the country, and they’re trying to tackle the same scale of data as they do in normal times.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

He wore no fewer than three coats, all of them of fabrics and colors I’d certainly never seen in Arlington.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson