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Example Sentences

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City have already benefited from one rule change this season that allowed players to play for two teams in the same competition, instead of being cup tied.

From BBC

"Did a bit less cooking in the offseason this year. Stuck to plastic silverware instead of metal stuff," he joked.

From Barron's

By harnessing the physics of the atomic-scale world in a new way, a quantum computing circuit can hold many values simultaneously, instead of just a 0 or 1 like today’s transistor-based circuits.

From Barron's

The board instead renewed his contract multiple times, then called him back in 2022 — nearly a year after he had retired — when the last leadership handoff famously unraveled.

From Los Angeles Times

But the shipment was rejected after an environmental group claimed it contained illegal toxic waste instead, forcing its return to Albania.

From Barron's