Example Sentences

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July 4 is the first day when parents, guardians and others can start contributing to the accounts.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

“Maybe they don’t need to know about all the fighting that we have to do before they get to go out and enjoy and be tribal guardians stewarding their land.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

This idea echoes a long-standing hypothesis in sleep research -- and even in classical psychoanalysis -- that dreams may act as "guardians of sleep."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker