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Example Sentences
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For other passengers, reserving a seat is optional.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Lincoln did not treat the Revolution as an open-ended aspiration; he gave it a moral center, insisting that equality was not an optional inheritance but the nation’s core identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
What follows is a sometimes frustrating, often hilarious hodgepodge of observations about the innate folly of living in a world where treating employees with basic respect is seen as optional.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
The company says the avatar, called Mico and resembling a blob with a smiley face, is "not a mascot, but an optional visual identity for Copilot".
From BBC • May 13, 2026
People said he treated the taxation laws as entirely optional, but he would make a fair deal where the need was real.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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