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Example Sentences
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The best thing you ate after the show.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
He ate with tax collectors, sinners and outcasts.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
In town, a few residents wandered through a mostly empty shopping mall, while members of the security forces ate ice lollies at an observation point under the blazing sun.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The risks weren’t only for people who ate the most ultraprocessed foods in the new study.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
One that boasted of everything they ate, everywhere they went, and every bitter chemical they swam in.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
