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paragraph

[par-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


NOUN
indentation
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Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak have pinpointed a winter night in 2016 as the turning point, when the justices “issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling” on Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

It’s actually in the same paragraph as that line about legislative purpose.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

It’s right there, the opening sentence of the second paragraph in the Fiscal Year 2027 Topline document just posted on the White House website.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The tone of the marketing campaign bid request itself echoes that message, with its introductory paragraph pulled directly from Newsom’s State of the State speech in January.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Here, for example, is the second paragraph of the entry for ‘magnet’ from a technical lexicon of 1708: Sturmius in his Epistola lnvitatoria dat.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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