C

Example Sentences

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Not every editor is quite as catholic with a little c, as ecumenical, as excited about such a range of writing as I am.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

This is often what I'd describe as campaigning with a small "c" – discreet conversations and planning, the vast majority a long way from the public gaze and deniable.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

While the Englishman spoke up for conservatives with a small c, the American emerged into a new style of politics: His literary success was inseparable from his activism as a promoter of gay rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Under normal conditions, cytochrome c escapes from the mitochondria to initiate cell death.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

Though its soft pads made no noise, you c ould feel the earth shake beneath their weight.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis