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Example Sentences
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Homeownership has long been many Americans’ primary strategy for generating long-term wealth, both because home values generally increase over time and because paying down a mortgage is a way of forcing people to save.
Many of these restaurants had prix fixe menus that typically offered spaghetti, “because it was the primary shape that people were eating most of the time,” he explains.
From Salon
"The on-board assisted driving system cannot replace the driver as the primary driving subject," the Supreme People's Court said in the Friday ruling.
From Barron's
McDonald would not give information about what style the primary gun from the school was, saying "because of its unknown origin, we don't know if there's other parties in terms of procuring that weapon".
From BBC
Danker added that “every FDA drug approval or rejection decision under Dr. Makary’s leadership has represented the recommendation of each primary review team of career scientists.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
