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Example Sentences
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The unemployment rate kept steadily falling, to 3.5% by 2020, reaching levels far below what Warsh or even his most optimistic colleagues thought was likely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
All that promise started to wither around 2015, as social media giants gobbled up more and more of the profits that kept earlier hangouts afloat.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Rather than hammering home his advantage, defending champion Romero went back into his shell and Lopez kept him well at bay with his jab to take the 23rd victory of his career.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Shoehi Ohtani threw live batting practice for the first time since sustaining a knee injury that has kept him out of the Dodgers’ rotation since July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
And then Cam got brave, kept talking, maybe because he knew she needed specific words, these words, to ground her again.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
