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Example Sentences
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A forensic linguist told the BBC it's possible to glean crucial information about a person from just a few sentences.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
"The latest figure that we have is 72," the government's delegate to Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez Triano, told reporters, when asked about the number of fatalities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
The next day, she was placed on administrative leave and told her contract would end after the semester.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
As Renee DiResta, associate professor at Georgetown University, told me, generative AI is a tool: “You can take a hammer and build a house with it, or you can use it as a weapon, right?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“I told you to devote more time to yoga. No one listens,” she says as she searches high and low in her locker for her German textbook.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
