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Example Sentences

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“You must be held strictly accountable for your lab’s raw data. If you refuse to manage it, you are actively planting a ticking time bomb under your own career.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

In first instance, the firm had pushed the case that the EU was unfairly blind to practices by Apple, which gives preference to its own services, such as Safari on iPhones.

From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026

The family took refuge first in Scotland, then in Cyprus, where they own a house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Just as special as the loan of the paper itself is the way visitors have enjoyed thinking about what they would put in a declaration of their own, says museum director Lucy Littlewood.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

I was fifteen and finally had a real room of my own, one that even included a window.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith