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Example Sentences
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She worries it would set an impossibly high performance standard for the clone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Football came to Armstrong, via a television set, in suburbia.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
He was however conspicuously set to skip the main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the landings, which heralded an end to World War II, later in the afternoon.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
There are still more stockpiles from strategic reserves that are set to hit markets, as part of an International Energy Agency effort that started in March.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
“My best wife. My best son. A father who lived to feel real freedom. You did this, Pa. Long ago, you set the course for the promised land.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Expressions and Equations
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Physical Education - Introductory
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