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Example Sentences
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Economists can carefully tease apart the different causes of higher prices, in the same way that they focus on “core” inflation to isolate the general trend from unpredictable oil shocks and avian flu outbreaks.
The country will hold general elections in April.
From Barron's
If the Justice Department decides to settle with Live Entertainment, a group of some 40 state attorney generals will probably persist in their own antitrust litigation.
From Barron's
He declines to name names and instead talks in general about the three powers jockeying for dominance: Russia, China and the U.S.
On Friday, the Treasury Department issued a general license allowing certain large oil companies to invest in new oil-and-gas operations in the Latin American country.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
