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For the record, the first paragraph of the memorandum of understanding he and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed reads:
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The framework’s first paragraph declares “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
The first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US, Iran and allies will declare an "immediate and permanent" termination of military operations on "all fronts" - including Lebanon.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s analysts expect the policy paragraph of the statement, featuring data dependence and a meeting-by-meeting approach, to remain unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Then, about a paragraph into Heather’s reading, he gets up and grabs a lav pass from Mr. Shunk’s desk.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
For David Harbour, it was the messages pouring in from friends — not the usual “great job!” an actor receives when a program is airing, but long blocks of text, paragraphs dripping with emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"They are already identifying 70% of our hearts attacks from two paragraphs of text," said Swinburn.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
But now and again he produces sentences, sometimes entire paragraphs, that make you sit up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It takes me an hour and a half to write two paragraphs.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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The candidate is advised to go over his paper carefully before the end of the hour, to make sure that it is correctly spelled, punctuated, and paragraphed.
From Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College by Gilbert Sykes Blakely
But I have paragraphed it in the Nation, to which I refer you.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
What help is it to the reader to have a composition paragraphed?
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
But within three days the date of the wedding was fixed, and all the papers paragraphed it far and wide.
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page
I was lampooned, caricatured, and paragraphed in the newspapers, in a thousand different ways.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
Determine how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012
Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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