Example Sentences

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Canada has been recognizing a National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 since 1996, and the country honored the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 last year.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Throughout its history, one of Facebook’s core competencies has been recognizing upstarts and ruthlessly copying their core features.

From The Verge • Jun. 15, 2022

Since 2012, Golf Digest has been recognizing philanthropic golfers of all kinds.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 8, 2017

The world of science has been recognizing more fully, year by year, the paramount importance of the systematic study of Anthropology to the aspirations of modern civilization.

From Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States by Brinton, Daniel Garrison