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Example Sentences
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While crude prices have remained relatively contained, diesel and jet fuel markets continue to show significant tightness.
While crude prices have remained relatively contained, diesel and jet fuel markets continue to show significant tightness.
Lagarde said such an outcome would warrant a smaller response to assure Europeans that inflation would be contained.
Its targets for replacing gas and oil-fired boilers are contained in its newly-published climate change plan for the next 15 years.
From BBC
Trying to trick them, he showed them a wallet that contained only a little money.
From Los Angeles Times
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