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Example Sentences

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The commissioners demanded more transparency from developers about their operations and required them to comply with the county’s new development regulations before they would vote.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

“If women are required to do most of the work raising children, we will have fewer children when women have greater autonomy. Men have to step up to care for the children they want.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Creating the complex entangled states needed for these technologies has traditionally required sophisticated equipment and carefully designed experimental systems.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

Wednesday's Pearson Edexcel paper one exam has left students feeling "overwhelmed" and "uncertain" by questions that required "multiple layers of reasoning" and "extended algebraic manipulation".

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Allied forces would temporarily occupy a band of German territory along the Rhine River, and Germany would be required to pay reparations, or damages, for the loss and destruction caused by the war.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman