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Example Sentences
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Now, the stocks are nearing critical levels, and energy executives say without an influx of more oil, prices will have to surge to stop the run on supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
He also laments that the pizza boxes he uses, which are made in China, once cost him 30 cents and now run almost 67 cents apiece.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
He had once been a Catholic priest - before quitting the church to run off with Enid, two weeks after he'd married her to someone else.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
Mamdani said that the Knicks run turned the nation’s largest city into “what feels like the world’s smallest town.”
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2026
“Promise not to punch me in the arm or make excuses and run away?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
