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I would worry about offending my children, but they stopped reading after the first paragraph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The key phrase in the previous paragraph is “give the president the power to tariff.”

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

For the record, the first paragraph of the memorandum of understanding he and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed reads:

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

The first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US, Iran and allies will declare an "immediate and permanent" termination of military operations on "all fronts" - including Lebanon.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

“Okay, so that first line in the second paragraph is definitely one,” Matt says.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

"They are already identifying 70% of our hearts attacks from two paragraphs of text," said Swinburn.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

The final summit declaration consisted of six concise paragraphs, mirroring the brevity of the 2025 Hague Summit declaration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Since the lead is in itself a separate part of the story it should always be paragraphed separately.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

The ear of society?—they were talking, or almost, as if he had publicly paragraphed a modest young lady.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

The papers had not merely paragraphed Peter, and the peculiar position of the "district" in the convention, but they had begun now asking questions as to how the ward would behave.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

Whether you wrote as Jones, or Smith, or Robinson, you'd find Jones, Smith, or Robinson artfully puffed and paragraphed and thrust under people's noses in the papers.

From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

But within three days the date of the wedding was fixed, and all the papers paragraphed it far and wide.

From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page

Determine how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Identify how genre conventions for structure, paragraphing, tone, and mechanics vary.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

It's a massive book, littered with obscure references, and is written almost entirely in unattributed speech, with no chapter breaks and very little paragraphing.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013

Caro now says that Shawn agreed to restore all the changes he cared most deeply about, but the magazine version nevertheless differs from the original and changes Caro’s punctuation and paragraphing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2012

Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker