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Example Sentences

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"I was literally running on an hour and a half of sleep, but the adrenaline of the day keeps you going," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Isaac GRoot is Nvidia’s software for robot brains, running on Jetson Thor hardware.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

China has Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance, BYD, DJI and CATL, it argued; America has produced little besides “a search engine that’s a bit chattier than the old ones, running on Taiwan-fab’d chips.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

He’s running on a message of righteous fury as a survivor of the Palisades fire, in an era when many Angelenos feel pessimistic about what’s next.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

He was running on the green turf and singing.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien