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Example Sentences

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Bass did not attend the forum, traveling instead to New Orleans for a reelection fundraiser.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

They administered the Eucharist instead to the members of the procession and to police officers who were nearby.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

“If the news had called Cindy a mother instead of a stripper, then people and maybe even the police would be more concerned,” she told the paper.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

He has little of Karp’s genteel bedside manner or public profile and is known instead for an unforgiving style and hard-driving perfectionism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

He dreamed that Fa was alive again; but instead of a face, he had a blank white stone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver