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Example Sentences

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“I want them both to be able to zoom through this and figure out what’s going on and move onto something else.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

The model shows how electrically driven reactions in dust storms release chemicals into the atmosphere, where they are later redeposited onto the surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Both the apartments and offices are in the shadow of MIT, one of America’s universities thinking harder about how to support entrepreneurship on campus–and hold onto its students.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Reports describe last-minute efforts to hold onto the job and mounting frustration over stalled prosecutions and the handling of high-profile files tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Slowly, slowly, he bent his right leg and found the next· foothold, about a forearm higher than the .one he’d stepped onto with his left.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver