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Example Sentences
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It’s just one night; I’ll disappear and hide in the background of their date and leave them alone as soon as I can.
From Literature
Until now, they have never even disclosed their last names, let alone anything about their background, education or experience.
From Los Angeles Times
"To have a gun in your home you need to have a licence. You are then background checked… Where are these checks for these dogs? Where are they? There's none," she says.
From BBC
Arno Penzias at Bell Labs won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering “cosmic microwave background radiation” from the Big Bang.
No one, regardless of race or background, can practice medicine in the U.S. without demonstrating the competence to do so.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
