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Example Sentences

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"We've streamlined a little bit, the kitchen's taken a hit," Ronnie said.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

"For many cosmic-ray events taken together, their energy distribution, arrival-direction pattern and statistically inferred composition provide important clues about where these particles come from and how they are accelerated."

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

Why has it taken her a decade and a death to get back to the place where all the pivotal moments of her girlhood took place?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

But she didn’t know and it was three days before the family learned that he had been taken to the federal prison in Amsterdam.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom