paragraph
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But in its 99-page annual report for 2025, LA28 offered just a single paragraph on venue preparation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I think we had a chance to say the words we wanted to say in our impact statement, but now I've been told they've redacted my last paragraph, which felt like our only chance."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some self-styled guardians of journalism think I should include a paragraph like the preceding one in every article I write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
For the record, the first paragraph of the memorandum of understanding he and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed reads:
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
If you wrote a paragraph on Marilyn Monroe’s face, without telling me whom you were writing about, could I guess who it was?
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The official rules on estate recovery take up just three paragraphs on Medicaid’s website.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
For David Harbour, it was the messages pouring in from friends — not the usual “great job!” an actor receives when a program is airing, but long blocks of text, paragraphs dripping with emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The final summit declaration consisted of six concise paragraphs, mirroring the brevity of the 2025 Hague Summit declaration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
She leafed through the pages, skimming for signs of Reed’s name among the dusty paragraphs and disjointed phrases, but the stories were gone.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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What help is it to the reader to have a composition paragraphed?
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
I was lampooned, caricatured, and paragraphed in the newspapers, in a thousand different ways.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
But within three days the date of the wedding was fixed, and all the papers paragraphed it far and wide.
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page
One day Field said to Bok: "I am going to make you the most widely paragraphed man in America."
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
The Lead.—The lead itself is always paragraphed separately.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde
Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Correctly identify and use conventions of the personal narrative genre, including structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012
Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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