Scopes
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
Scopes had his day in court and although he was found guilty and fined $100, Tennessee did not come out of the trial unscathed.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
Microsoft’s Scope 3 emissions are nearly 50 times as large as Scopes 1 and 2 combined, and they rose 23 percent in the year through June, after small declines in previous years.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022
At the time, Plummer was costarring with Brian Dennehy in the Broadway revival of “Inherit the Wind,” the classic fictionalization of the Scopes monkey trial of the 1920s.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2021
Scopes was the shop name for the shrouded trackers attached to American communications satellites.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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