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Example Sentences

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Are there things that you do for yourself to maintain your own sanity?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

So when I read it, I was like, “Oh, OK. That’s like those five-page monologues that you don’t get very often to do for one character in one episode.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

“Europe stands now at a crossroads. We now have a rare opportunity to choose what we want to do for our future,” Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s top tech enforcer, said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

"That was an affordable way I could make crazy things like an alien and a spaceship. I wasn't thinking about a career - animation was just something I wanted to do for fun."

From BBC • May 22, 2026

“OK, one: What did you do for your last birthday?”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison