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Example Sentences
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Skilled skimmer-builders are especially protected by the groups, she noted, rarely using stolen cards lest they get caught.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I read such stories aloud and adhered to commanding officers’ warnings to keep “notes to the boat” free of any references to stress at home, lest we lower troop morale.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
In Borneo's West Kalimantan province, at lest 15 of the animals have been rescued from flames and haze since July, some stuck in plantations after fires cut off access to their forest home.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Teams are always circumspect about doing anything too exotic during the preseason, lest they give regular-season opponents something to study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Not with dread, but agitation lest it shouldn’t work, and...excitement—as wild and soft as a chaos of moth wings—lest it should.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
