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Example Sentences
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The track and field season begins in less than a month, and for an early look at who’s gotten faster should happen on Saturday when Arcadia High is the site for the California winter championships.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, his brother had gotten a job making six figures as a lineman.
Some of the leading figures in the last round of Epstein files had gotten away with the tiniest of reputational stains.
Whether you’re 29 or 68, three dates means you’ve cleared the basic hurdles: conversation flows, attraction is mutual, and neither of you has abruptly “gotten busy” for two weeks.
He had also gotten a clunk on the head, but he didn't even care about that because it was so interesting, what pushing would do.
From Literature
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