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Example Sentences
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He laid out five broad areas of concern: jobs, biotechnology, cyberattacks, psychosocial harms and whether humans will be able to maintain control over the systems they are building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The “separation” rate, which includes both people who are laid off and those who leave their jobs voluntarily, has been stuck around its lowest levels since the years after the financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Percoco, who rates Tesla’s stock at the equivalent of neutral, laid out both a bullish and a bearish case for the event.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Their long nights of text messaging were laid bare and many of the messages shown to the jury.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mama looked at me, dropped the peas she had in her hand, and you would have thought that it was the first time in her life that she had ever laid eyes on me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
