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Example Sentences

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He looked across the table at me very sweetly, with kind eye contact, before asking, “Are you OK?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Schafer calculates that Nvidia is currently trading at around 17 times his forecast for the company’s earnings per share in 2027, compared with an average of 20 times across the chip sector.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

Besides, he adds, if Apple were short on chips, we’d see “disruption across a much broader slice of the Mac lineup.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Even if Pangram misfires on a given op-ed, the study’s broader pattern—that A.I. use is showing up across major newspaper opinion pages, his own included—is impossible to argue with.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

She reared up on her hind legs, snarling and hissing so loudly, it carried out of Deadwood, across the road, and into the forest beyond.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman