very thing

Example Sentences

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And the very thing they're meant to do, provide job opportunities to claimants, isn't something they're widely able to do as many employers don't advertise with them, believing they won't get quality candidates.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Donald Verrilli: I think I agree with you, but I worry that he may gravely disappoint you within months on some other matter, or on this very thing.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Some free VPNs have been caught logging and selling user data—the very thing you’re trying to protect against.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Snook was dealing with the kind of calculations that mothers have to make all the time, the very thing the show itself is addressing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

It was the very thing he’d plotted to accomplish, what he’d thought he’d wanted all along.

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