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Example Sentences
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Digital technology isn’t merely accelerating some inevitable tide but is a force unto itself—one that makes solitary leisure more appealing, corrodes the incentives for sociality and, as a downstream consequence, reduces marriage and fertility.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
As another priest once put it, “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Bonta is asking courts to tell Bianco that he’s not a law unto himself, and does in fact answer to the state attorney general.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
The case would force the tech giants to take "accountability", she said, adding that she thought "these companies are a law unto their own".
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
But he eyed me severely,—as if I had done anything to him!—and departed with the words reproachfully delivered: “Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them which brought you up by hand!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
