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Example Sentences

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"I stay in the background/hidden, just make the arrangements," he apparently wrote to Epstein in 2011, in one of those emails – and eight years later that's still how he worked.

From BBC

“We didn’t have a background in psychology or social work, we just had each other and a mic,” Greenberg recalls.

From Los Angeles Times

My background is in partnerships and nonprofits, and I was hired for philanthropy.

From MarketWatch

As Ellen Carol DuBois relates in “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” her subject was appalled to realize that, after the Civil War, men of unexalted background were destined to get the vote before educated women like her.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite his unease with her background, he couldn’t seem to forget Maggie Fox.

From Literature