Example Sentences

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Base-editing technology could one day be used to help parents avoid discarding embryos in the IVF process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

We are rewarding technical knowledge and discarding the other two.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

That means, in part, becoming more and more of a closed ecosystem, discarding customization methods that might take you away from official big-name apps or, worse, leave a cash-generating option on the table.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

Rather than discarding it she hands it to her colleague, apparently ready to be reused on another child.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

I read hard, discarding a writer as soon as I felt that I had grasped his point of view.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright