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Example Sentences
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Instead, Mr. Capron kept their demonstrations selective: “they do not mean to give any public exhibitions …” only, “private investigations of scientific persons and friends.”
From Literature
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"When I started the chest compressions, it began moving its legs. The more it moved, the more I kept going," he said.
From Barron's
The company says its Orbs translate images of a person’s face and iris into an anonymized string of numbers to be stored on his or her device, with no data kept by Tools for Humanity.
She felt an immediate admiration for him but kept her distance for a few months as she sought to project a professional attitude by focusing on her work.
The client kept paying a luxury car lease and a membership for Soho House, a social club that costs nearly $4,000 a year.
From MarketWatch
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