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Example Sentences
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J. Edgar Hoover, who led the FBI for 48 years, had established a personal fiefdom devoted to consolidating power and pursuing his own personal obsessions, sometimes with blackmail and coercion.
From Salon
California and New York, both states with acute housing crises, have already pursued their own reforms.
Barely old enough to read on her own.
From Los Angeles Times
“But when the U.S. loosened the rope around our necks, we could breathe. If they just left us alone, we could find our own solutions.”
From Salon
When first spotted in 2021, it was thought the sheep would be able to make its own way back to fields above the cliffs.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
