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Example Sentences
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His laughs generally were created not at his expense, or that of his listener, but of some third party.
According to the preliminary monthly run of the Chicago Fed’s labor-market model, employment fundamentals like the hiring rate for unemployed workers and the rates of layoffs and quits were likely little changed this month.
The U.S. solar energy transition could slow if the supply of Chinese-made solar panels were suddenly cut off, for instance, but that wouldn’t be an immediate national-security catastrophe.
There was something sort of thrilling in the sense that we were pioneers in a brand-new millennium, one so fresh and unsullied.
But if the AI trade were to blow up, he said, the blast radius could be wide.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
