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Example Sentences

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If you must exchange money with relatives, always get everything in writing, with terms that are clear before emotions get involved.

From MarketWatch

He has previously apologized “to the women and girls whose voices should have been heard long before now.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The soup equivalent of putting on lipstick before leaving the house.

From Salon

In the film’s slightly alternate reality, Charli sighs and goes along with what everyone else is telling her to do, simply because she’s never found herself in this position before.

From Salon

However, she pulled out of the event just days before the opening ceremony due to the ongoing crisis in her family.

From Salon