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Example Sentences

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We’ll keep it breezy, useful and real, because, as we’ve learned, most people are just trying to get a little better with their money without turning into day traders or Ebenezer Scrooge.

From MarketWatch

Lotus spent roughly 15 years trying to break into India’s fragmented retail market through a distributor, Boone said, but sales in the country never grew past a couple million euros.

From The Wall Street Journal

But changing diapers, juggling deadlines and trying to make room for each other was hard.

From Los Angeles Times

Health Secretary Neil Gray is trying to see off planned strikes by resident doctors and open the first in a network of NHS walk-in treatment centres.

From BBC

For a confused college football fan trying to explain the inexplicable, there is a common thread running through all of the weekend’s upsets: the transfer portal.

From The Wall Street Journal