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Example Sentences
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And the message-board-born concept of a “lolcow,” a gullible user who can be goaded into making a fool of themselves on a regular basis, definitely predated the music video.
From Salon
Data released last week showed U.S. consumer prices, on a year-over-year basis, rising at the slowest pace in five years.
From MarketWatch
More than a dozen Royal Mail postal staff from different delivery offices claim rounds are being missed on a daily basis and parcels are being prioritised over letters as they are stretched beyond capacity.
From BBC
“But that’s what we deal with every day, and the business doesn’t fundamentally compete on the basis of tariffs.”
In the government’s annual budget plan last year, Ottawa pledged to spend over 80 billion Canadian dollars, equivalent to about US$59 billion, on a cash basis to upgrade the Canadian military.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
