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Example Sentences
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Election workers collecting ballots from a drop box in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday found multiple mail-in ballots that had been burned, officials say.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Imagine police responding to a robbery by obtaining judicial permission to open every safety deposit box in a neighborhood bank, briefly inspect the contents, and determine afterward which customers seem suspicious.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
“He didn’t need to think outside the box,” Mr. Epstein writes, “so much as he needed the right box in which to work.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
"South Africa are going to be hard to stop. They have ticked every box in this tournament," said former Australia wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
