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Example Sentences
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In September, her agency issued a “call to action” to public officials, saying 100 storefronts and one-third of commercial space is vacant, “a higher vacancy rate than Detroit.”
From Los Angeles Times
In an update on Saturday afternoon, the force said two protesters had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and causing a public nuisance after allegedly attempting to climb pillars near Trafalgar Square.
From BBC
It might not have been quite the real thing, but it was unmistakably Tiger Woods, in a red shirt, swinging a golf club in public again.
Last year, the company signed an agreement with Congo to digitize the geological records at the Belgian museum and make them public, and to help drive investment—including its own—in Congo’s minerals sector.
Coupled with shortages of food and medicine, the situation has triggered rare public dissent in the form of street protests.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
