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Example Sentences

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“You think that you have it. Then all of a sudden, it’s like somebody pulls a rug out and says, ‘No, we’re changing it,’ and now it’s going to be this way now.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

In earlier experiments, the researchers studied young adults by suddenly destabilizing them, essentially pulling a rug out from under their feet.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

The film, however, brushes these things under the rug, attempting to align Melania with her purported favorite cause: the health and safety of families everywhere.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

Still, Ash threw cold water on the possibility that individual investors in China and elsewhere suddenly pulled the rug out Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

His hands were turning the same dark orange as the rug.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste