passage
Example Sentences
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“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” aptly reflects the way that holiday images randomly flare up and recede within the bright hearth of recollection, memories made mutable by the passage of time.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress, unequivocally required the department to release its full trove of files by midnight Friday, marking 30 days since passage.
From Los Angeles Times
Rowling series for themselves—often rereading, committing passages to memory and challenging one another to answer esoteric trivia questions.
The economic backdrop bodes well for equities next year, she says, with the Federal Reserve likely to continue easing monetary policy, while the passage of new tax legislation earlier this year will benefit corporations.
From Barron's
This “new Silk Road” starts in China, runs through central Asia, and ends in Europe, mirroring the ancient Silk Road passages that traders carried silk and spices along for more than a thousand years ago.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.