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Example Sentences
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It could be a chair, a tent-like structure, or a curved container of some kind, for instance.
From BBC
The moment resembles prior instances where news events have prompted users to rethink their loyalties to technology brands.
No one going through a breakup, for instance, has ever felt better after being told, “There are plenty of fish in the sea.”
From MarketWatch
Silver’s comments—and a subsequent conference call addressing the topic with all 30 of the league’s general managers—came on the heels of some of the most laughable instances of tanking in NBA history.
In both instances, the loss in data-center demand totaled less than 2,000 megawatts—a substantial amount of power, but not enough to create a crisis for the grid operator, known as PJM Interconnection.
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