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Example Sentences
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In the late ’60s, the media portrayed Solanas as just another radical member of the divisive second-wave feminist movement taking hold in America.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Patients may appear healthy, but as they age, Ms. Khamsi explains, there are “populations of abnormal cells taking hold in their bodies.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
That’s because this event is reminiscent of “the blob” — a massive marine heat wave that took hold in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast of California from roughly 2014 to 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
“This would mark only a marginal improvement from the recent string of hot PCE inflation prints and should keep the Fed firmly on hold in the near-term,” writes Stephen Juneau, U.S. economist at BofA Securities.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
I imagined trying to eat a sandwich like that in the bathroom, everything ending up on the gross floor except a single slice of mayonnaise-y bread I still managed to hold in my toes.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
