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Example Sentences

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At Bell Labs, if someone caught you working on a personal task, you’d say “G-job,” as in government job, as in “don’t ask.”

From The Wall Street Journal

A pioneer in computational neuroscience, Marr was best known for his work on vision, treating it as a multilevel system and not merely a system of neurons.

From The Wall Street Journal

This normally gives seafarers exceptional rights, including repatriation at the company's cost and double pay for those working on ships covered by IBF agreements -- around 15,000 vessels worldwide, according to the ITF.

From Barron's

And he saw this as a chance to bring in researchers—Shockley, Gerald Pearson, John Pierce and others—who later worked on the transistor, the solar cell and the first communications satellite.

From The Wall Street Journal

In addition to fusion, it has other business lines: a power-management division and a medical unit working on particle-beam technology for targeted therapy for recurrent cancers.

From The Wall Street Journal