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Example Sentences
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They wrote: “Mortgage costs are a decisive factor in consumers’ assessment of their ability to make what for many Americans amounts to the most meaningful purchase of their lives.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026
In Obama’s White House, he suffered what for him might have been the severest penalty — being ignored.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
The Justice Department said the paint job wasn’t a certainty and argued there was no reason for a judge to police what for now remains a hypothetical project.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
She was determined to shine a light on what, for many Americans on both sides of the color line, is a hidden and forgotten history.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025
All I could think of was that in his desire to conserve gasoline, he wanted me to ask him each time I used it, and let him know what for.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
