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Example Sentences
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Organic compounds are carbon containing molecules that form the chemical building blocks of life as we know it.
From Science Daily
Under the Online Safety Act, the regulator can fine firms up to 10% of their turnover or apply for a court order to block a site in the UK.
From BBC
In practice, blocking one of these apps from accessing your bank account doesn’t erase the balance — it just stops the app from automatically pulling repayment from your bank account.
From MarketWatch
And it wasn’t lost on Rove that the spindly, excitable man narrating that story for them in a thick Hungarian accent “was once a 16-year-old picking up paving blocks and heaving them at Soviet tanks.”
“I’m a U.S. citizen,” he recounted telling ICE officers at the road block.
From Salon
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