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Example Sentences
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In one instance witnessed by a Journal reporter in July, ICE officers in Lake Worth, Fla., snapped pictures of two Guatemalan men whom a state trooper had just stopped.
Before Israel’s move, only Taiwan—which seeks international support for its autonomy from China—had diplomatic relations with Somaliland but stopped short of full recognition.
Seeing plastic waste in such a natural setting stopped the Rutgers chemist in his tracks and set his mind racing.
From Science Daily
The German was originally ruled offside and Fulham's players were so confident that was the right call that they had virtually stopped before Wirtz took his shoot.
From Barron's
Bad light stopped play at 14:55 local time, with showers then blowing in and out.
From BBC
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