Example Sentences
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"We are gratified by the jury's verdict in our favor," a Boeing spokesperson said in a statement to AFP.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
She speculates that its harsh reception may have to some degree gratified its author who, after all, “did mean to write a savage, cruel, and gloomy novel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"I don't know whether to feel gratified by the vindication or annoyed by the amount of time I wasted in pointing out that the numbers were clearly wrong," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
“The same group of people, the same kind of night, 30 years later. I feel incredibly gratified by that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
He had never felt so hungry, never felt his hunger so gratified, not even in his mother’s kitchen.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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