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Example Sentences
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He kept walking by his daughter’s room, wondering if he should keep the door open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
While the market has risen, its gains haven’t quite kept up with Wall Street’s increasingly sunny outlook for corporate earnings growth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
But in an era of public offerings and rich acquisitions, this family has kept a tight grip on the handle of the business their patriarch founded in 1896.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"For too long, outdated restrictions have kept tens of millions of forested acres off-limits to the very treatments that improve forest health and reduce wildfire risk to our communities."
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It is discovered that she left strict orders at Carville that her whereabouts be kept secret.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
