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Example Sentences
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For a brief period, the industry acted less like individual companies and more like custodians of a shared national responsibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The government has continued to insist that it acted according to the information available.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
He said the documents show what the city "knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"If the temperature acted as a trigger, it seems that it needed to wait until the rock was right at the tipping point of collapse," she added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was uncanny to see how Old Timothy’s cooing voice acted upon the villain.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
