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Example Sentences

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“The portfolio manager will sell the positions, turn everything to cash, and that will go out to clients sort of the same way that a dividend payment would.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

This sort of change in behavior would hardly be terrible; it would generate more income for workers, more output for employers and more revenue for the government in the form of base-pay taxation.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

I just thought that was such a great way into her sort of mental state and how she approached clothing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

"I always sort of go back to classic actresses in the way that they could sort of toe a line between extreme femininity and just rock hard will and grit," she said.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Other times they take skin from an animal that’s sort of pink, like a pig, and they use that on you, at least to start.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott