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Example Sentences

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Miles Oglethorpe, formerly of Historic Environment Scotland, is hopeful that advances in paint and steel-coating technology could bring down the cost of preservation and maintenance.

From BBC

Ah, but everything has changed, the formerly overpaid disappointment having transformed himself into arguably the most important player on baseball’s most important team.

From Los Angeles Times

As to which of these formerly house-proud democracies is more badly damaged, that feels like a coin-flip.

From Salon

SpaceX posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that the 24 Starlink satellites had successfully been deployed.

From Los Angeles Times

"It was his dream," Oleksiy Kasyanov, the general secretary of Ukraine's track and field federation and formerly its national decathlon coach, told the paper.

From BBC