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Example Sentences
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Newsom describes fishing on the Rogue River and riding in a helicopter while studying polar bears on the shores of the Hudson Bay in Canada.
From Los Angeles Times
Once, when Anastasia was getting Sam dressed for bed, she asked him, "Do you want to wear these pajamas, Sam? The ones with teddy bears on them?"
From Literature
How each man pulls up on Sunday will have a significant bearing on the result.
From BBC
JP: Does the reality of industry have any bearing on the art you want to create versus the art it’s ready for?
From Los Angeles Times
What’s different about economists is that they are intensely interested in measuring and understanding how labor markets work—and they have brought that to bear on their own profession.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
