Example Sentences

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This includes a contribution from the photonics business of five percentage points above the group’s long-term growth target of 7%, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Given the group’s commitment to costumed stage personas, the mixed sexuality of their members, and their name, the Village People came to represent the confluence of masculinity and queerness.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Instead of displaying Mexican soccer team players’ faces, the group’s cards feature the faces of missing relatives atop the Mexican national team’s uniforms.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Fraser Sutherland, the group's coalition manager, said: "Climate change is already affecting people's health and well-being, livelihoods and financial stability in Scotland, with more frequent storms, floods, droughts and wildfires wreaking havoc across the country."

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Then when the engineers heard of the Princeton group’s work, they realized that they had found the cosmic background radiation.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife