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Example Sentences
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"We decided to leave them on for the whole match because they had not played much in this competition."
From Barron's
The legal landscape shifted without clearing, and so long as the threat persists through other channels, the political pressure to fix the refund process and to make consumers whole may fade before anything gets done.
"We need to measure CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide at the same time and throughout the whole season to understand the real net effect in the northernmost agricultural areas."
From Science Daily
The statement denounced the meeting between Degalo and Uganda's president and said it was "an unprecedented move that is an affront to humanity as a whole, before it is an affront to the Sudanese people".
From BBC
"It is so easy to just blame people rather than looking at the whole thing and think - 'actually what are we doing'."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.