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Example Sentences

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Ford stock is down 5% over that span.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

By contrast, all other industries combined lost an average of 43,000 jobs a month during that span.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

The number of homeless students in Los Angeles County is surging, with thousands more unhoused in the span of a single school year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

These cans contained fillets from four species collected over a 42-year span in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

Only a modest train ride separated the Burnhams, but the mounting demands of the fair made that distance as difficult to span as the Isthmus of Panama.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson