roles

Example Sentences

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Electricity-powered high-speed rail and electric vehicles have partly stepped into the roles of short-haul flights and gasoline cars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Previously announced to join the series - although details of their roles have been kept under wraps for now - are Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Others are promised roles as drivers or clerks, or that the contract will last "just one year".

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

In 2018, before they took on their current leadership roles, the pair helped put together a code of conduct.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Many of its most ardent supporters, having developed a convenient collective amnesia about their roles in encouraging the German eugenicists, renounced the movement altogether.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee