Example Sentences

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The devotion is well-earned: Smith can quote Jefferson verbatim and cites Seneca and Enlightenment philosophers without blinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Mr. Porter is a former president of the Seneca Nation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Prosecutors served subpoenas on several members of Price’s City Hall staff and several former employees of Del Richardson & Associates, which Richardson sold to the Greenwood Seneca Foundation several years ago, the sources said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

"It's an annoyance," says Ellen Campbell, who owns a house on Seneca Lake a short distance away.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

With that decision, the Seneca Falls leaders established that it was a person’s attitude about female equality and not their sex that should determine who was, in fact, a feminist.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling