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Example Sentences

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If planet nine exists, it would therefore perhaps have to be farther than 500AU away from the Sun.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

“My personality is such that if I’m confronted with it I don’t back away from that,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The 44-year-old American last played at the 2022 US Open when she said she was "evolving away from tennis".

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Ann Harvey contacted BBC Your Voice last month after her teenage son had failed to get a test in Reading and finally sat his driving test in Bury St Edmunds, more than 130 miles away.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

He turns away, then reconsiders, turns back, stooping toward me.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes