backgrounds
Example Sentences
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Our reporting has shown the relative ease with which people — some with questionable backgrounds — founded their own schools in unusual places.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Experimenting, it seems, with high-contrast printing and an X-Acto knife in his bathroom darkroom, he reduced his figures to lonely shapes of solid black on solid-white backgrounds and vice versa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Because the participants were predominantly White, the findings may not apply equally to people from other ethnic backgrounds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Growing up in Pacoima helped him understand the needs of immigrants and “those of diverse backgrounds with limited resources.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
And in all of these countries, I talked with Afro-Americans and whites of many professions and backgrounds.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
