Example Sentences

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A narrative has arisen that AI will obsolete software vendors and their per-user subscription revenue model, and Friday’s news played into that story.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The uncertainty over Carvalho’s future has arisen about five months after the Board of Education unanimously voted to retain him for a second, four-year contract, at an annual salary of $440,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Instead it seems the killings are an inevitable tragic consequence of the tension that has arisen between federal law enforcement’s aggressive tactics and the resistance from citizens and local governments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Usually, this is to address some kind of issue that has arisen.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025

We choose fi — V3, implying a total number of planets in the Milky Way on which life has arisen at least once as N,fpnefi — 1 X 1011, a hundred billion inhabited worlds.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan