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Example Sentences
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My mom grumbled it was like the House of Stray Cats, folks using their nine lives.
From Literature
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“They have more resources to make good choices, hopefully, than a lot of folks do who get themselves tangled up in really bad subprime auto financing,” Van Alst said.
From Salon
But getting together “feels unaffordable and unattainable to a lot of folks.”
Watson would let eight supersmart folks work on anything they found interesting.
“Our folks don’t always protest for things, but this was very important,” Parrish said.
From Los Angeles Times
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