Example Sentences

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If they are masking broader demand pressures, these alternative gauges are providing false comfort and could leave the Fed behind the curve again.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

For investors, the key question is whether some of China’s listed restaurant and beverage giants are masking franchisee stress beneath aggressive expansion.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2024

“We are masking on Fridays,” an attendant told one woman who had managed to make it well inside the theater without a mask on her face.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022

I think," she whispered at last, "that you are masking still.

From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Yonge, Charlotte Mary