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Example Sentences
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The crash in the race wasn't his fault but perhaps he could have judged his overspeed a tad better - easy for me to say.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
Headline CPI rose 2.4% last month from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace and coming in a tad lower than economists’ forecasts.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Lee Knight’s “A Friend of Dorothy” may be a tad on the nose about the cultural and emotional impact of a lonely London widow on a closeted teenaged boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Van der Poel is considered Gronkowski-huge for cycling, but at 6 feet, 165 pounds, he’s actually a tad smaller than Stolz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
I wasn’t but three or four at the time, a tad too young to work the land proper.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
