Example Sentences

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The data came from the Geneva registry and the National Agency for Cancer Registration, which compiles information from cantonal cancer registries across Switzerland.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

They verified his birth date in two registries, and filled in the paperwork to register him for a possible record as a joke, she added.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Two of my siblings are getting married this year, which means I’ve been thinking more than usual about wedding registries — that peculiar exercise in imagining a future life.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

Ship registries and some of the big maritime nations—Japan, Greece, the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

“One of the Permanent Bureaus of the Internal Administration. Looks out after false registries, unauthorized travel, job-substitutions, forgeries, that sort of thing—trash. That’s what mm/means in gutter-Orgota, trash, it’s a nickname.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin