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Example Sentences

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“I just passed on a package of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips this morning because the bag was $10,” one Reddit user wrote in a discussion thread about the E-shaped economy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Mazzara’s comment in the email thread with other Homeland Security attorneys was given to American Oversight with a watermark showing the agency had intended to withhold it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Tuesday’s episode picks up that thread with the future of the team in jeopardy and plays out differently from the “NCIS” norm.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Or as the progressive writer Matt Stoller tweeted over the weekend in a thread about the war’s political blowback, “I do not know why people assume Trump will be in office for much longer.”

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2026

He held up a single spool of thread.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff