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Example Sentences

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It is the game that took him to Barcelona's famed La Masia academy as a child and European glory as an adult.

From BBC

Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine’s Day took a break from staring longingly into each other’s eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southland sky.

From Los Angeles Times

The party was already highly secretive before Xi took power in 2012, but his tilt toward autocratic rule has made Chinese politics even more opaque and sparked a resurgence in Pekingology.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I was given the opportunity and I came out and took advantage of it."

From Barron's

Under former US president Bill Clinton, the black-and-white cat Socks took up residence in the White House from 1993 to 2001.

From Barron's