Example Sentences

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Humanity has spied more than 5,500 worlds orbiting other stars, and some are truly exotic.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

In Thursday's hearing, the TikTok CEO was asked if of the app, has spied on Americans at Beijing's request.

From Reuters • Mar. 26, 2023

While Hubble has spied galaxies as far away as 300 million to 400 million years of the universe-forming Big Bang, their individual stars are impossible to pick out.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2022

Meanwhile, from afar, Perseverance has spied fine layering in Séítah’s ridges, including a prominent 40-meter-tall plateau dubbed Kodiak that is, in all likelihood, a remnant of the delta’s further reach into the lakebed.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 21, 2021

Empire is sweet; but how if heaven has spied?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir