Example Sentences

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Many researchers believe economics helps make students more civically engaged.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“It’s more complicated ethnically, civically and historically,” so a protracted war there “is not going to be like Iraq — it’s going to be 10 times worse,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

Like so many other millennials, Piker experienced his first brush with left-wing politics via The Daily Show and other Bush-era satire, but he does not exactly remember himself as civically engaged.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2025

King said the bill’s passage is the final layer in his ability to be civically engaged and “have a full voice and complete connection to the community.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

What Fargo, Minneapolis, and Duluth were to be civically and financially were the chief topics of conversation.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore