Example Sentences

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I have two graduate degrees, but I am discouraging my children from going to college.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2012

He'll be mad; he'll think I am discouraging you.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van