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Example Sentences
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“There’s nothing harder for a working person than seeing that the result of the work has been destroyed,” said the manager, who has worked at this station for 27 years.
Some analysts wondered if the two men had disagreed over policy, while others theorized that Xi wanted to eliminate a perceived threat.
But that hasn’t stopped foreign academics, officials and business executives from trying to find out—and some are turning to arcane tea leaf-reading techniques dating back to the era of Mao Zedong.
Others have tracked attendance at political gatherings, parsing changes in seating arrangements or unexplained absences that can signal a disturbance in an official’s career trajectory.
In April 2025, He missed an annual tree-planting event that typically involved all active uniformed officers on the Central Military Commission.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.