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Example Sentences
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Dr. Ashish K. Jha, an American scientist and biosecurity expert, said Russia owed the world transparency over the incident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Related”? “May be subject”? The blunderbuss letters put the onus on the homeowners to determine if they owed the tax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
After years of litigation and a two-week trial in June in Van Nuys, a civil jury decided Brown owed Maria Avila $12.9 million in damages for counts including emotional distress and medical expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
All in this, it was said, showed that City failed to act "with utmost good faith" and "breached duties of co-operation that it owed to the Premier League".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
It did not occur to Browne that the notion of intellectual property owed as much to Columbus as to the printing press.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
