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Example Sentences
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He launched, then walked back a criminal leak investigation of a Los Angeles Times reporter and was ordered to testify after sheriff’s deputies took and shared pictures at the site of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Leon Jaworski took over the probe after Nixon ordered Cox’s firing in the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Because of the lack of snow this year, the state water board ordered farms to stop taking water from the Scott River in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He has also ordered a third-party review to "determine exactly what occurred".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The pungent scents of Mr. Lew’s unwashed body and the pot-boiled astragalus-and-longan-berry tea he’d been ordered to drink four times a day seeped in from the kitchen.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
