paragraph
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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 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
The first paragraph of the agreement contained the core of the deal: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
A paragraph which blandly stated the results of the autopsy appeared in the back of the Hampden Examiner.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing paragraph
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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Write On!: Graph and Gram
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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