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Example Sentences
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"At my age you don't know how many years you have left, and this has given me three years-plus of stress but now we have proven they blocked our rights."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
In May, a federal judge said that only Congress could rename the center and temporarily blocked Trump’s plan to close it for a $257 million renovation.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In her own court filing, the staffer described how the center had been blocked off by gates and witnessed how a forklift had "run into and hit the pillars on the building several times."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Federal judges in Portland, Colorado, Washington, D.C. and the Eastern District of California have blocked similar warrantless arrest practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A bunch of people who live around Rockledge Park start in: “The smoke from the fire blocked out the stars.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
