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Example Sentences
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Davidson referenced a New York Times article about trouble with their business venture, but said, “I cant spend $5 on a paywall when I have a kid on the way.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
“You cant understand it. You would have to be born there,” says the tortured Quentin in William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2023
“I cant tell if she has me or Amos’s eyes,” Norton wrote on Jan. 30, 2020, after seeing the latest picture of Eden at the hospital.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023
"The bills are just coming and coming and coming to a house we cant live in. Unless someone fixes the bigger problem I'm in dire straits."
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2023
And even worse, my parents cant replace it right now.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.