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Example Sentences
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Olsen: You’ve expressed some frustration recently with the phrase “representation” — that it’s become kind of a hollow gesture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
In his view, “no phrase could have been more radical, more momentous.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
If anyone still in public life knows how much freight that phrase carries, it would be him.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
The case thus turned on the meaning of that phrase.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Ruffling my curls, he said that same phrase he’d been saying since he’d lost his job.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing phrase
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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