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Example Sentences
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"That ship is moving right now or very shortly and it's being replaced with another very similar ship," Trump said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The suit alleges that shortly after it began Said continued to get assignment requests from David Herndon, then head of ABC’s Los Angeles bureau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The club had previously brought together the core of the Bloomsbury Group and, shortly before Hobsbawm’s time, the Soviet spies known as the Cambridge Five.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The force received reports shortly after 12:00 BST that a light aircraft travelling from an airfield in England had not arrived at Caernarfon Airport as scheduled.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But unlike every other kid, Elliot had never had anyone come on a family visitation day because his parents had both died shortly after he was born.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
