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Example Sentences
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For example, one Texas data center has a team of some 1,500 people working on construction, but is only expected to have around 100 full-time employees working at it once it’s done, per the Wall Street Journal.
From Salon
All the guys were into sports; I tried doing that growing up, and I just hated it and never felt like I was good at it or fit into those boys and what they were doing.
From Los Angeles Times
"But if you can get them early enough and teach them respect for women, I think that's so important to get into schools… and the more I look at it, it is the most important thing we can do now."
From BBC
“She developed a deeply intimate relationship with the Pacific Ocean not by studying it or by looking at it, but by getting into it — again and again and again, on choppy days and gloriously calm days, logging what I can only guess are thousands of miles.”
From Los Angeles Times
Someone glancing at it would see $811 million of revenue over the last four quarters.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.