phrases
Example Sentences
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But her daughters prefer Mandarin and can only exchange basic phrases with their grandmother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Coroners are in the business of endings, putting a neat period on decades of damage with phrases like “cardiac arrest.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Other popular phrases unique to the Who-verse: “Good form, Bella Thorne.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Soon after TechCrunch reported on the concerns, Instinct updated its terms-of-service agreement to remove several of the phrases that raised eyebrows.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Indeed, I shall argue that the new science would not have been possible without the construction of a new language with which to think, a language necessarily cobbled together out of available words and phrases.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
