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Example Sentences
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Complicating matters further, when I checked the researchers’ database, it labeled the Blum and Saphier articles “mixed” and only the Spencer one “AI.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
By the time she set off to tour her album, the artist said, “I was already so checked out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
After spending roughly a day in a stretched‑out "high Earth orbit", Orion's engines, navigation and life-support systems were checked, while the capsule looped our planet.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
"He asked for my mobile phone and checked everything, even my photographs. It was extremely intrusive," she added.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
He couldn’t leave the library without finding out why his sister had checked out this book.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.