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Example Sentences
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Midway through the game, Brown settled on a strategy whose genius lay in its simplicity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Hughes himself lay in one of the caskets to experience it.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Vance made it clear that the administration’s interests lay in the country’s vast oil reserves.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
He was ever fearful of what lay in the shadows, and that ever-present dread, combined with his constant tilting at windmills, exhausted him.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
