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Example Sentences
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The billionaire announced plans last July to combine the paper with studios and esports and take the Los Angeles Times’s parent company public.
Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants reports earnings this week amid concerns over rising oil prices and a strike at a large U.S. meatpacking plant.
She said her family could not afford rents elsewhere in Lebanon, and she worried about moving her elderly parents and husband, who uses a walking stick, into a shelter.
From BBC
“My parents didn’t attend high school,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead they can only be referred to by naming their parents.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
