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Example Sentences

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The new system learned the task in only 34 minutes, while conventional models required more than a day and a half.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

The Bruins didn’t even panic when their leader seemed to panic, as Betts spent nearly half of the first quarter on the bench complaining that, “I’ve got something stuck in my throat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Private equity and credit markets have swelled in recent decades while the number of public companies has shrunk by more than half.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

And just like in the first, fifth and sixth frames, Zhao ruthlessly won them all ruthlessly and he applied the coup de grace with his sixth half century of the match.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

And the postman and the trolley motorman and half a dozen policemen from the Haarlem Police Headquarters just around the corner.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom