Example Sentences

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Before that split, two or more weakly differentiated Homo populations had been exchanging genes for hundreds of thousands of years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

Mr Levinson said the man had been deceived by Mr Wootton into believing he had been exchanging messages with the woman in the images.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

Prast had been exchanging notes on the Slack messaging platform with her star reporter Friday morning, when he abruptly dropped the conversation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022

An investigation also revealed he had been exchanging text messages with a woman before his wife died.

From Fox News • Dec. 11, 2021

He felt about him people moving; he heard them in the darkness whispering faintly as if they had been exchanging secrets important or infamous.

From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Conrad, Joseph