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Example Sentences

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The glassy-winged sharpshooter was first reported in California in the early 1990s and is native to the southeastern U.S. and northeastern Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Anthropic’s revenue recently surged after its coding tool Claude Code went viral among software engineers, and the five-year-old startup surpassed OpenAI’s valuation for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

A few miles from those macabre discoveries, soccer fans will pour into the volcano-shaped Akron Stadium, just outside Guadalajara, for the first of four World Cup matches that will be played there, beginning Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It was there he saw the cleaning team, the first people he had encountered in almost a week.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

She told my parents that she sensed a mystical presence when she first laid eyes on me.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold