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Example Sentences
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For instance, Hologic is a medical-technology provider, and several healthcare companies were candidates for inclusion and either comparable to or larger than Casey’s when it came to their market values.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
For instance, states along the West Coast are seeing higher annual temperature extremes, while many northern states are experiencing warmer minimum temperatures.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
Koch, for instance, sleeps "suspended like a bat" while Glover fits himself into a narrow nook between space equipment and the ceiling of the spacecraft.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
For instance, Grace uses his laptops, “waveform-analysis software” and Excel to prompt Rocky to identify numbers in his own language of notes and chords before eventually becoming fluent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
For instance, if a person had once said “’belled,” that has been changed to “rebelled,” and the word “Massa” appears as “Master.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.