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Example Sentences
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“He wasn’t the kind of person who went on vacation and laid out in the sun by the pool,” Erin says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Amazon announced in January that it would lay off more than 30,000 workers, while Oracle laid off more than 10,000 workers.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
She laid out how O’Connor played along with this flagrant judge shopping—she actually quoted a past speech in which he defended judge shopping.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Joachim Klement and Francisca Reis, strategists at Panmure Liberum, the U.K.’s biggest independent investment bank, have laid out three ways the AI trade may fizzle and the impact those scenarios could have on stocks.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Grandpa grunted, and taking the net from me, he laid it down on the ground.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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