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Example Sentences

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Last July, the university said it would automatically give raises to employees to among its lowest paid workers, bringing them to $25 per hour or a 5% wage increase — whichever was higher.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

At times, Liverpool executed the press well, with their front three blocking PSG's makeshift back three - before Frimpong jumped up to press whichever home player had rotated to the left side of defence.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

For now, we are politically homeless, but whichever party can give us adequate shelter will gain a moral and political windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

It was Clouseau, or whichever character he was playing, who was trying to maintain his dignity and failing miserably but trying to hold on to a sense of self and composure while everything is crumbling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

They can follow me with Rachael Rosens until I die, he thought, or until the type becomes obsolete, whichever comes first.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick