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Example Sentences

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While for AST SpaceMobile, Sunday’s launch was a failure, for the Bezos-owned Blue Origin, things look a tad brighter.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

He does so carefully, and perhaps a tad too slowly.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The crash in the race wasn't his fault but perhaps he could have judged his overspeed a tad better - easy for me to say.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Headline CPI rose 2.4% last month from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace and coming in a tad lower than economists’ forecasts.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

All this would be fine—an embarrassment of riches, to be sure; a tad too many treasures to be bestowed on a single human, certainly—if he were nice.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon