Example Sentences

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One of the biggest setbacks came in 2022, when the Contras wildfire disrupted power and internet service at the observatory for months.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

Nicholas Contras, a retired lawyer from Cincinnati who attended Mr Vance's celebration, said it was the candidate's anti-establishment status that won him over.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

Washington supported an anti-Communist rebel group, the Contras.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2021

They don’t even have necessarily a bare-bones understanding of what happened, or what was going on with Iran, or even who the Contras were, and, most of all, how those two things were related.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2020

Well, those poor sailors wandered about all night in the swamps across the river, and this morning they ran into Colonel Dupin and his Contras, and the colonel was frothing mad.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)