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Let that ratio sink in: For every dollar Apple spent imagining the future, it spent nearly four dollars buying back its own past.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

Mandy said her ordeal did not really sink in for a few days.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

They let the listener fill in the blanks, and the broader meaning tends to sink in subliminally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Back in Iran, a sense of the inevitable had begun to sink in for many there.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

Only then did the meaning of the sentence before her start to sink in: How much do you know about alternate worlds?

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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