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Example Sentences
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Coming from an independent film background, I love it when small movies make a lot of noise.
From Los Angeles Times
The small canvas shows a young woman set on a dark background, her head turned towards the viewer and a pearl earring glinting from beneath her blue and cream turban.
From Barron's
“We’re not an entity that has worked in Gaza before, so we didn’t have this background, this baggage, that maybe could have affected things.”
They also allow many communication channels to operate at the same time while improving tolerance to errors and background noise.
From Science Daily
“That harm can look like wrecked credit, failed background checks, or failed mortgage applications while the people committing the fraud face relatively little risk or consequence.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
