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Example Sentences
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"Those whose contracts are about to end... they really want to go home," he said of his fellow sailors.
From Barron's
Whenever somebody stares at Sasha-Jay Davies in a supermarket, she panics, thinking they recognise her face and are about to confront her.
From BBC
Some banks are offering five-year CDs paying 4% or above — and based on the action in the bond markets, such opportunities are about to get better, not worse.
From MarketWatch
She said this led to her eventually being sectioned for her own safety, and noted that this was something she still "received regular social media abuse from strangers about to this day".
From BBC
Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
