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Example Sentences
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After European and other regulators adopted U.S.‐style rules, those stock markets caught up with the U.S. in terms of breadth and depth.
From Barron's
“If it takes collective action…it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”
Under a “design to value” approach the company had adopted, those employees needed to find corresponding cost cuts.
In a sense, Kirk has adopted a strategy used by pianists like Nat King Cole; when Cole plays the melody, or the “head” as musicians call it, he often phrases orchestrally, in rich block chords.
Only after decades as a physician and policymaker did I understand that my father and mother had unintentionally but eagerly adopted one of the most powerful health interventions ever discovered: human connection.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
