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Example Sentences
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My mom also took in many children and relatives when things weren’t going well at home; one cousin stayed for two years recovering from hepatitis.
Ellie has had hundreds of messages over the last few months from families who have relatives with Down's syndrome.
From BBC
Social media was in its relative infancy—Instagram was born in 2010, the year Yeates disappeared shortly before Christmas from her home in Bristol.
Of course this year has also been good to people investing in America, and while stocks still look historically expensive relative to earnings, those earnings have been stellar.
The resulting “Making the Best of What’s Left” was written not just for her peers, but for anyone with parents, relatives or friends in what she calls the “final fifth.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
