Example Sentences

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The IRS had been matching up advance payments based on 2019 or 2020 tax returns.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

And as he released the wrist he had seized to help her, she repeated the dismal prophecy which for days she had been matching against her hopes: "You're going to leave me—in the lurch!"

From The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington, Booth