promise
Example Sentences
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He promised it wouldn’t taste like coffee without sugar.
If anything, the promise of more English pain boosted the Boxing Day crowd to 94,199 - a record for a cricket match in Melbourne.
From BBC
But the gulf between the promise of the technology and what it can do today is wide, Kelkar said.
It was one of the original BRICs—the acronym championed by Goldman Sachs to highlight the promise of fast-growing emerging economies—alongside Brazil, India and China.
“This is a common-sense reform with a great deal of promise,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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