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Example Sentences
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But they failed to ask why only 20 airports—less than 5% of U.S. commercial service airports—have chosen to enroll in the SPP over the past two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
This trade-off is valuable when telescope time is limited and follow-up observations must be carefully chosen.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
She writes, “I wondered why he’d chosen him, rather than Leila, as his focus,” and guessed at how Jim might work with women based on this first film: “I assumed wrong.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Rachel Khong’s irresistible puzzle of a second novel suggests it is a mistake to think we can force complex, nature-nurture identities in a chosen direction.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
I wanted to show that I understood the seriousness of the matter and appreciated that I was the one he’d chosen to confide in.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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