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Example Sentences
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While the episode could be brushed off as an embarrasing error, it was an unwelcome distraction a month before her second Budget.
From BBC
New York was “a crucible where ordinary people, artists, and outcasts brushed shoulders with superstars in the making,” Mr. Ferrando writes.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had brushed off concerns about the location and highlighted the need to put the world's largest tropical rainforest at the center of the talks.
From Barron's
The panel also flagged Beijing’s intensified military activities around Taiwan, a warning to investors who have brushed worries about the island democracy Beijing considers its own.
From Barron's
The panel also flagged Beijing’s intensified military activities around Taiwan, a warning to investors who have brushed worries about the island democracy Beijing considers its own.
From Barron's
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