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I have no doubt I’ll have occasion to put the strategies my students and I developed together into further use next year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020

“How far is too far, in scrubbing away a history so that we won’t remember it wrong – or, indeed, have occasion to remember it at all?” asked Mark Summers, a University of Kentucky professor.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2020

The men would not have occasion to discuss their personal heroics from 2002: Molina was the backup catcher; Callaway and Wise were depth pitchers who did not make the postseason roster.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2020

PhDD: Person who might have occasion to say, “Excuse me, my brain is up here.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2019

I don’t have occasion to use my mean mouth on boys, since they don’t say provoking things to me.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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