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Example Sentences

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"I've gotten used to it, but before, at the beginning, it was downright stressful."

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

"These are little octopuses that live in the deep sea, and hardly anybody on Earth has ever gotten to see them. I just feel lucky that I got to work with them," says Voight.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

Since then, the tools have only gotten faster, cheaper, more widely available — and harder to detect.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Today, more than eight months after Anchorage, Russia still hasn’t gotten much closer to capturing it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing and dragging the net over the ground, the net had opened.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls