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Example Sentences
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Countries have been assigned annual quotas and beef sent to China will be subject to the extra 55 percent levy if imports go beyond that amount.
From Barron's
When someone’s smart we say he has brains and if he’s brave he has guts, but gallantry isn’t assigned a human part and so must be a thing of the soul.
Gen. Juan Carlos Correa, who is among the top army officers assigned to find ways to counter the drone attacks.
They recruited more than 1,000 people, randomly assigned different types of resolutions, and tracked them for a full year.
Following the natural disaster, local law enforcement was assigned the task of confiscating guns, many of which officers say were stolen or found in abandoned homes.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
