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Example Sentences

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Every investor knows the four most expensive words they can utter are “it’s different this time”—and it’s unlikely that memory makers can entirely leave their cyclical history behind.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

“I was attached to this Henry Darger painting when I was writing the book. I felt like that was a really accurate visual representation of little girls running away from utter chaos,” says Cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

No is a powerful word for a leader to utter, especially in an agency that has to make go/no-go decisions with billions of dollars and human lives at stake.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Europe’s problem instead is an utter inability to decide what it actually believes about itself and the world, and to organize itself to act on that conviction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

One day the Nine appeared to him and they told him, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton