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Example Sentences
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In less than two weeks, he has turned around the entire Dodger team, transforming it from a likely first-round playoff loser to arguably a World Series favorite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
A senior source says: "His political will needs to be more bold than the machine around him – don't write cheques you can't cash."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But there’s a lot of blame and shame around people who are poor and/or in debt.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
He died with his family around him, the only people who knew both the old and new Phineas.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
