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Example Sentences

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Each new foal bore the promise of outperforming a carefully chosen set of parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Folded into the cozy slide-show vibe of Magnason’s home videos and the carefully chosen archival footage, the movie plays like a scrapbook portrait in which home just happens to boast the grandest of backyards.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

In the movie, Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a TV meteorologist chosen by extraterrestrials as the human through whom they communicate—“the last person on earth that you’d imagine would be destined for this task,” Blunt says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Since Musk's takeover some companies have also chosen to leave the platform in what's been termed "the great X-odus".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

I had also chosen to stop talking then, not for any particular reason beyond that after a hundred years, you get a little tired of being the last one left in a conversation.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman