Example Sentences

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For smaller smartphone makers with thinner profit margins, the uptick in memory costs shatters the notion that component costs fall over time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

It’s that type of benevolence that fuels Minnesota nice, and what shatters it.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Whether the Fed supports or shatters that perception depends on what it says, not what it does.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

That already shatters the current record price garnered by a basketball card — the $5.9 million paid for the 2009-10 Panini National Treasures Stephen Curry Logoman Autograph card in a 2021 private estate sale.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

With well-placed charges of black gunpowder, he shatters rock.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman