Example Sentences

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The technique was used to process tests for H.I.V. as that epidemic took root in the United States, recalled Dr. Fauci, who said he had been recommending it to federal officials for months.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020

Until now, Metro had been recommending that customers wear facial coverings.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

Earlier in the outbreak, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been recommending that all healthcare providers wear N95 masks, but it loosened the guidelines recently, in part to stretch limited supplies nationally.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

In addition to offering “subpoena resistant” e-mails, he had been recommending that his clients forgo Google for Yandex, the Russian e-mail and search-engine company, because “it is much harder to subpoena from a foreign entity.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2019

They talked a little about the books Howard had been recommending, but Mrs. Graves was bent on making much of Jack.

From Watersprings by Benson, Arthur Christopher