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Example Sentences
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“We didn’t have a background in psychology or social work, we just had each other and a mic,” Greenberg recalls.
From Los Angeles Times
My background is in partnerships and nonprofits, and I was hired for philanthropy.
From MarketWatch
As Ellen Carol DuBois relates in “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” her subject was appalled to realize that, after the Civil War, men of unexalted background were destined to get the vote before educated women like her.
Despite his unease with her background, he couldn’t seem to forget Maggie Fox.
From Literature
Looming in the background for Carney, though, are domestic political considerations, with trepidation from pockets of the country’s Indian diaspora.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
