opportunity
Example Sentences
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Judge Roach had given them an opportunity to consider manslaughter charges, which would have carried a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The global infrastructure buildout is an opportunity to create more resilient and sustainable structures that can adapt to climate change, point out several advisors.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The opportunity is now for the public to show that it prefers non-idiocy in the media outlets it patronizes and is willing to pay for.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
His wife used the opportunity to retreive a water bottle and got the bear off of him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Instead she’d decided to take my change of heart as an opportunity to get me past what she called my “Lincoln Block.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing opportunity
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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