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Example Sentences
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He said the deal provided too much money to lawyers instead of their clients.
The entrepreneur, who aims for a commercial launch in July, was adamant that iBuddi "is not driven by surveillance" but instead "reacts to the moments that matter instead of continuously recording everything."
From Barron's
Self-proclaimed Parrot Heads—who still slap stickers on the building and leave flip-flops, salt shakers and other assorted memorabilia outside as a shrine to sunny good times—want instead to memorialize the studio forever.
Many nations do not send athletes to it, while others take skeleton teams, shorn of their leading lights, whose winter focus instead lies on training for lucrative spring road races or prominent summer track opportunities.
From BBC
Energy and momentum travel through the gas indefinitely instead of dispersing as heat, which is what happens in most materials.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
