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Example Sentences
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At concerts, he chats with the audience, takes requests, sometimes stopping mid-song to adjust the arrangement, or to scold his fans for spending too much time recording, instead of being present.
From BBC
The group, which said it would now use return on tangible equity as its profitability metric instead of return on equity, guided for a return of more than 14% in 2026, rising to more than 15% the following year, up from 13.6% in 2025.
Doing so can mean a bigger paycheck now, instead of waiting for another supersize refund in 2027.
“Instead of just coming in and saying, well, ‘This is how we’re going to do it,’” Patterson said, “it’s been a little bit more work of trying to put it all together.”
From Los Angeles Times
It is important to be seen as a key team member, preferably by pumping yourself up instead of dishing dirt on co-workers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
