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Example Sentences

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Sony’s lawyers pointed to hundreds of thousands of instances of Cox customers sharing copyrighted works.

From Los Angeles Times

A romance fraudster who conned men into spending tens of thousands of pounds to fund her lavish lifestyle has been jailed.

From BBC

And the apparatus that Cooke built to sell those bonds—a network of thousands of agents throughout the U.S. and Europe—became the blueprint for the modern investment bank.

From Barron's

“Once you get thousands of cars up there, you can start to invest into a gas station.”

From MarketWatch

Forts, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans were once held under inhuman conditions, remain standing along the West African country's coast.

From BBC