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Example Sentences
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About 1.3 million net new immigrants became U.S. residents from July 2024 to June 2025, less than half of the 2.7 million recorded during the same period a year prior.
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Less than half of U.S. refineries have cokers.
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Tariffs create an incentive to produce goods domestically, but no one is suggesting that import totals will be anything less than enormous.
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Venezuela makes up less than 10% of Chevron’s production, but the growth opportunities—and the potential pitfalls—of drilling there have investors transfixed.
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Plus, they often cost tens of thousands of dollars less than Western competitors.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
