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Example Sentences
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On Sunday, he said he wanted to repeat “my apology to the women and girls whose voices should have been heard long before now.”
Scotland's top law officer the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain announced two years ago she wanted an independent inquiry into potential criminality by officers involved in the case.
From BBC
She said their actions were "more performative than real" and that the defendants had really wanted to film footage of a confrontation with Nye and them giving her the Bible.
From BBC
A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii.
Alcaraz told everyone he badly wanted this tournament and went straight out and won it.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
