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Example Sentences
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But it ought to bother them that 20 years ago the man they loathe most took a look at Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct and got the hell out of there.
Brody is materially correct that any honest commercial about a tax service ought to reflect the misery of an early-April weekend paging through illegible municipal directives, and it’s legitimately funny that this is the first project he’s taken on since the Oscar win.
From Slate
You see that in something else Blackwell said on Tuesday: “Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign.”
From Slate
She wondered if she ought to be scared, and then she saw what it was.
From Literature
“Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign,” U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
