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Example Sentences

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The reason, Chan says, is that designs tend to be harder to break down into components and easier for a single person to work on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Neither of them made any substantive changes to core Roman Catholic doctrine, but when you’re the bishop of Rome and the head of the world’s largest single religious denomination, practice matters more than theory.

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

He used to get something different every single time we went to Sundae School.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison