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Example Sentences
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“The biggest issue is that we have to figure out how to stop letting so much garbage back here,” said Jeffrey Flocken, president and chief executive of the aquarium.
From Los Angeles Times
"We don't treat powerful or senior figures as untouchable."
From BBC
The average rent figures are nominal, so do not account for inflation.
From BBC
But their threats have teeth this time—not because they are abandoning great cities, but because they have figured out they don’t have to.
The increases expected this summer would push that figure to nearly 3,100 on peak days, the agency said, citing data-provider Cirium.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.