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Example Sentences

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Successive governments have kept the material to leave open the option to recycle it into new nuclear fuel.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

Ballerina Farm opts out of all that because its creators can afford to, even as they leave open the question of whether this life is truly what its namesake creator wants.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2024

That would leave open the possibility that the Fed’s prime lending rates stays at, or close to, 5.5 percent, the highest in decades, through the spring and summer house-buying season.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

If she opts not to seek reelection, it would leave open two of Virginia’s most competitive House seats, now both represented by Democrats.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023

Papers that I keep in my private safe, to which no one has a key but myself, which I never leave open if I leave the room even to go into another room, are taken.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir