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Example Sentences

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These stocks won’t necessarily rebound in the first few trading days of the year.

From MarketWatch

When he first started his job, Caldeira spent time in return queues at stores groaning at the many customers who held up the lines in a confusion of QR codes and labels.

From The Wall Street Journal

Scientists from the University of Bath, King's College London, and Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands collaborated on the first large-scale effort to measure psychological strengths associated with ADHD.

From Science Daily

In a study published in PNAS, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin report the first detailed identification of large river drainage systems on Mars.

From Science Daily

Then they scored just eight points in the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter and emptied the bench down 26 with 4:09 left.

From Los Angeles Times