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Example Sentences

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Compared with larger spacecraft, these compact satellites are much less expensive to launch.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

If it ends up with less funds this year, existing projects will still move forward with the available money, Hinton said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Buying stocks in January of either 1973 or 2000 left you with less wealth 10 years later than in 1929.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, as of March 31, Grok and Twitter had allegedly 1.3 billion global users, although less than half were active.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

We know she was less than five feet tall and fewer than one hundred pounds, yet tough enough to cross battlefields as bullets rained around her.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly