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Example Sentences

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Social workers also learned the woman was caring for the prisoner's XL bully dog and had twice taken the child to visit the prisoner, who had begun referring to him as his "stepson".

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Work on the Reflecting Pool project, which the billionaire real estate mogul personally inspected last week, has already begun and the lawsuit filed by the foundation is seeking to have it halted.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The spacecraft has already begun returning images ahead of the flyby.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

In recent years, the group—now more than 30 people—has begun planting corn, beans and potatoes during the rainy season.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

She was in Rochester when these tricks first begun, but came to Hydesville, the little village in Central New York, where we lived and were born, shortly after.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock