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Example Sentences
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Aside from the ongoing menace of nuclear annihilation, the biggest threat we’ve faced as a country was 9/11 when the country’s mainland was attacked by al-Qaeda.
From Salon
Webb, who became a Hong Kong permanent resident, believed that the former British colony's success was its "differentiation" from mainland China.
From Barron's
The figure was down nearly 40 percent from a year earlier, in part because no hurricane struck the US mainland for the first time in several years.
From Barron's
The figure was down nearly 40 percent from a year earlier, in part because no hurricane struck the US mainland for the first time in several years.
From Barron's
Trading volume across mainland Chinese stock exchanges reached a record high of $521.80 billion on Monday, as a slow bull market is taking shape amid the country’s supportive measures and progress on artificial intelligence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
