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Example Sentences
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The experience turned me profoundly away from the speculative and gambling possibilities of investing and turned me permanently, and pretty much overnight, into a patient, long-term value investor.
From Barron's
“I haven’t had a drink in years. The fact that I no longer even have a desire for it is pretty amazing.”
From Los Angeles Times
Her subject does a pretty good job of that on his own.
“Bankruptcy judges in a few courts are competing for the big cases, so they approve pretty much whatever the attorneys are bold enough to charge,” he said.
My mother was the family enforcer, but she had it pretty easy with me, since I was a “good kid.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
