Example Sentences

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“In the 14th century A.D., a Moroccan explorer named Ibn Battuta documented that a buttery variation of khichuri was eaten daily in South Asia,” wrote Rachael Grow for Mashed.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Made by artists from the Royal Bureau of Painting, such images documented gatherings of high government officials and were couched in the visual language of earlier Chinese landscape painting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

He said "decisive action" had been taken to strengthen how clinical information was shared and recorded to ensure uncertainty and differing opinions are clearly documented.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Because the specimen is so exceptionally preserved, scientists were able to examine features that had never been documented in such detail.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

At some point they got themselves into some kind of trouble, documented only obscurely in Chuck Day’s journal: “Talked ourselves out of a coupla places... cops, etc.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown