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Example Sentences

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Do the children grow into adults, or are their smaller car parts replaced with larger car parts — and if so, how do they retain their consciousness during this process?

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

By the end of 2025, the agency’s head count was roughly one-quarter smaller than it had been at the start of the year, according to one count.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Thus cleansed of expectation, you move through a series of smaller, even intimate spaces in which you are given free access to a literal universe of biological data.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Putting up all those new data centers requires plenty of what builders call aggregate, and what the rest of us call rocks that have been broken into smaller rocks.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She watched as it continued along the riverbank, growing smaller, until the noise died away.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret