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Example Sentences

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Men attempting to conceive are told to avoid heat to the genitals, e.g., avoiding hot tubs and biking shorts.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

“The outperformance appears to be owed to the dense clusters of advanced service industries, e.g. banking, finance and legal services, where RTO has been more prevalent.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025

President Donald Trump’s Commerce Department upped the ante in September, determining that entities restrictions extended to any subsidiaries, e.g.,

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

I can only hope that The Times or one of the local high school sports entities, e.g.,

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, e.g., when a snooker ball glances off another snooker ball.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon