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Example Sentences

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Beijing gradually increased the amount of oil the teapots could import.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

What DeepSeek showed was the Chinese entrepreneurial appetite for seeking out opportunities in research and innovation, despite curbs on the import of advanced tech.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Shares of all South Korean companies will continue to struggle against a falling won as the fuel import bill rises, Lui predicts.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

“We don’t import a lot of crude,” Beaulieu said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

What is agreed upon is that Lawrence understood almost immediately the import of what he had seen, even though Wideroe’s report was written in dense technical German, a language that was largely beyond Ernest’s ken.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik