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Example Sentences

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The number of hospice companies in Los Angeles County has increased by 1,500% since 2010, with 89 registered in a single building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

There is no opening credits sequence, not even a single bit of pre-title exposition to get viewers acclimated to the characters or the setting.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Nerve cells engineered to produce high amounts of FTL1 developed simplified structures, forming short, single extensions instead of the complex, branching networks seen in healthy cells.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

The decline of his career came not with a single event, but a series of shifts.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

I followed my escort into the single large room where several hundred men and women sat at long plank tables covered with thousands of tiny radio parts.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom