Example Sentences

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That move reinforced concerns that AI will prove more disruptive to software than the industry has been insisting.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

The party's leadership has been insisting for some time that it will not make unfunded spending commitments.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2023

“Japan has been insisting that we should be homogeneous,” said Takeshi Niinami, chief executive of Suntory, the beverage maker, and chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has been insisting he is not the company’s permanent CEO.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

“She has been insisting to my father that you are a witch. She says no respectable woman could keep afloat in the water like that.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare