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Example Sentences
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“Pacing the frontier” might more realistically be summed up as “trying to stay just ahead of trouble, on purpose.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The show, called “Yard Sale Liberation,” may best be summed up by this passage in the notes: “This is not a fantasy. These are pieces for the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It has seeped into their bones and is best summed up by the irrepressible old stager Ciganda.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
She summed up her comparison this way: “If you remove the frame of the cathedral, those stained glass windows shatter. They’re useless.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
J. G. Crowther has neatly summed up the real root of the problem, which Oldenburg fanned into flame: ‘Hooke could not understand what tact had to do with science...Newton regarded discoveries as private property’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
