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The key phrase in the previous paragraph is “give the president the power to tariff.”
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
The final Deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US, Iran and allies will declare an "immediate and permanent" termination of military operations on "all fronts" - including Lebanon.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s analysts expect the policy paragraph of the statement, featuring data dependence and a meeting-by-meeting approach, to remain unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
I spent the first three paragraphs of a recent column distinguishing between acknowledging failed climate policy and questioning climate science.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Evans said he did see brief maternity summaries - "usually a couple of paragraphs" - attached to each baby's neonatal notes.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
I tore through the lessons, quietly keeping tabs on where I stood among my peers as we charted our progress from long division to pre-algebra, from writing single paragraphs to turning in full research papers.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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The volumes are handsomely printed in 12mo form, and with an open, readable page, not arranged in verses, but paragraphed according to the sense of the narrative.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
It certainly was playing to the Press, for Mr. Gladstone's attitude on that occasion was paragraphed all over the country, by means of which fact I have here refreshed my memory.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss
The magnificent copes and vestments, of which there are some score, are merely tabulated, paragraphed, and photographed, and there is an end of them.
From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes
That it had reached her at all, said a good deal for Mrs Gildea's fame as a freely paragraphed newspaper correspondent.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
You have been most industriously paragraphed, in countless jests, about your penchant for pink teas, your expert knowledge of tatting, crocheting, and all that sort of stuff.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Correctly identify and use conventions of the personal narrative genre, including structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012
Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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