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Example Sentences
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By the time she retired in 2022 at 100, she was a national figure, noted for her age and sought out for interviews.
From Los Angeles Times
My two younger brothers and I spent that year, 2024, figuring out how to do things without having our mother there to guide and help us.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act also directs the department not to redact images or references to prominent or political figures, and to provide an explanation for each and every redaction in writing.
From Los Angeles Times
The results are the latest reflection of workers’ individual sentiment decoupling from broader economic figures.
From MarketWatch
These figures generate a puzzle: As the number of college-educated women exceeds that of college-educated men by a widening margin, one would predict a downward trend in marriage for these women.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.