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Example Sentences
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The migrants appear to have specifically selected decorated pottery from their homeland for use as grog.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ellison has called the merged company, Skydance, the name he selected two decades ago when he began building his Hollywood studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In emerging markets, AllianzGI prefers debt issued by oil-exporting countries and selected Brazilian and Hungarian local bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
That’s an age that was selected back when life expectancy was significantly shorter than it is today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The alternative, for Deutsche Bank, was to submit the matter to a panel of three Wall Street banks, randomly selected, to determine what these triple-A CDOs were actually worth.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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