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Example Sentences
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One year after two of the most destructive wildfires in California’s history erupted just hours apart, survivors commemorated the day in Altadena and Pacific Palisades with a mixture of anger and somber remembrance.
From Los Angeles Times
I live 15 minutes away from Altadena and had no idea that a fire had just erupted.
From Los Angeles Times
When the New York Times profiled Ms. Rodríguez as a “moderate,” a backlash erupted: Thousands on X ridiculed the paper for whitewashing her bloodstained record.
Four years before she arrived, the Kinneloa fire, sparked by a campfire, erupted in the same mountains.
From Los Angeles Times
Protests erupted on December 28 when shopkeepers in capital Tehran staged a strike over high prices and economic stagnation.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
