Example Sentences

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Tang Ngok-kwan, a former Alliance committee member, said on Monday he believed that the group had been acting within the law.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Leroy, who left the military to become a security guard, told police he thought he had been acting all the time on behalf of the government.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

But he became the subject of a Sheriff’s Department investigation in 2015 when a student told detectives Kaleel had been acting inappropriately toward him for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

After Machado won, some Polymarket users and outside observers questioned whether the mystery trader had been acting on nonpublic information.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Robbie had been acting funny toward me ever since that first funeral I did.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds