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Example Sentences

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And from one day to the next, Golding went from defensive coordinator to picking up the pieces of one of the ugliest divorces college football has ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t feel that way because we’re all picking up signs and marching down the street and preaching to people that they need to keep this sacred.

From Los Angeles Times

As good as it was for most of the game, picking off Sam Darnold twice and sacking him four times, the Rams defense failed to hold up when it counted most.

From Los Angeles Times

Brussels hopes non-EU allies of Ukraine like the UK, Japan and Canada might pick up some of that tab.

From BBC

It hardly helps the Hammers that all the teams immediately above them picked up at least a point last weekend while they were losing at home to Aston Villa.

From BBC