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Example Sentences

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They didn’t reply when I asked for an explanation of the discrepancies between the paper and the online database.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

And another comment stated that the impact wasn't just on Claude Code, saying "A simple one sentence reply to a conversation just took me from 59% usage to 100%. How??"

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

The U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Alabama, which declined the case, did not reply to a request for comment.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

The US Coast Guard did not reply to an AFP request for comment.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

“We didn’t know they spoke Spanish in Turkey,” they’ll say, and then, to avoid explaining too much, we reply, “It’s Spanish from long ago, de munchos anyos. Our ancestors brought it from Spain to Turkey.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar