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Example Sentences
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Bank of Montreal’s common equity tier 1 ratio held steady on the prior quarter at 13%, though that was narrowed slightly from 13.5% a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Its owner Leonid Radvinsky, who died earlier this year aged 43, bought the site from its British founders in 2018.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The results are consistent with several earlier studies involving a previous shingles vaccine that also found an association between shingles vaccination and a reduced risk of dementia.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ballmer, like Iger, had come up short in earlier bids for teams, and wasn’t going to let it happen again with the Clippers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Planning to capture Booth when he did his walk-through of all the hidden exits of the theater earlier that day. Tricky one, that; took us multiple jumps to figure out.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
