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Example Sentences

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Season 4, however, has turned the salmon from a background indulgence into a full-blown subplot.

From Salon

Museum director Rebecca Yorke said 500 people of all ages and backgrounds visited on one Saturday.

From Barron's

"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