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Example Sentences

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Investigators will "explicitly" consider the backgrounds of offenders, including their ethnicity and religion, Mahmood said, and "whether the authorities failed to properly investigate what happened out of a misplaced desire to protect community cohesion".

From BBC

Taken together, the data provide statistical evidence of a structural shift in which the economy’s supply-demand balance remains resilient while inflationary pressures continue to build in the background, said Daiwa Securities economist Kenji Yamamoto.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the live, as the members sit around a table of food with a Christmas tree in the background, talk turns to how 2025 is ending and the new year is around the corner.

From Salon

The adoptee said she would also like people like her to have a marker on their medical records because having to repeat her background to medical professionals "is very, very triggering".

From BBC

Baty, who runs private dining business The Wandering Cumbrian, took on 31 ambitious professionals from a variety of backgrounds and locations in the televised section of the competition.

From BBC