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Example Sentences
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California’s population growing seemed to be a permanent feature until the pandemic, when the California exodus became the state’s first years of population decline, ever.
From Los Angeles Times
Christopher saw his wife for the first time since she was arrested in the dock during the trial in October.
From BBC
The semiconductor maker late Wednesday posted a jump in revenue in its fiscal first quarter, led by growth in demand for its memory chips.
Wall Street missed out on those gains last year, when indexes mostly fell during the stretch spanning the last five trading days of the year and the first two of the next.
Shortly after the first Gulf War in 1991, the U.S. and its allies launched Operation Provide Comfort, a humanitarian relief mission to defend Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
