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I would worry about offending my children, but they stopped reading after the first paragraph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

My middle-school civics textbook barely dedicated a paragraph to this 1801 war between the U.S and a group of North African states, which has been described as “America’s first war on terrorism.”

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

It’s almost too stunning to carry on after hearing such news—but to a second paragraph of this entry we must go.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

The first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US, Iran and allies will declare an "immediate and permanent" termination of military operations on "all fronts" - including Lebanon.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

All the top contestants were given a sheet of paper with the following paragraph printed on it:

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

The official rules on estate recovery take up just three paragraphs on Medicaid’s website.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Evans said he did see brief maternity summaries - "usually a couple of paragraphs" - attached to each baby's neonatal notes.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

But now and again he produces sentences, sometimes entire paragraphs, that make you sit up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

We would talk about any number of things, and Miss Whitlaw encouraged me to write short paragraphs about dragons, which she and Robin then corrected.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Rank, wealth, the notoriety that is paragraphed in the society papers, those are what Luce worships, and marries for.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

Her work was spelled and periodic, phrased and paragraphed.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

One day Field said to Bok: "I am going to make you the most widely paragraphed man in America."

From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok

The candidate is advised to go over his paper carefully before the end of the hour, to make sure that it is correctly spelled, punctuated, and paragraphed.

From Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College by Gilbert Sykes Blakely

The Lead.—The lead itself is always paragraphed separately.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Determine how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013

Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012

Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker