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Example Sentences
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It’s ’90s night at the Tokyo disco, as Japan’s central bank on Friday raised its policy interest rate to the highest level since 1995.
Growth Gambit: OpenAI is aiming to raise as much as $100 billion as it seeks to pay for growth plans in a market that has cooled recently on the artificial-intelligence boom.
But in a letter dated January 2025 - in reply to concerns raised by UN special rapporteurs - they said that Saudi Arabia "protects and upholds" human rights and that its laws "prohibit and punish torture".
From BBC
Norms launched at the end of September after raising $2 million.
“The world was ignoring what happened, so we have to do this. Our women sold their gold, people sold property, others took loans to raise money,” Tarif said, adding that some $2.5 million was collected.
From Los Angeles Times
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