Example Sentences

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The rate at which recruits have been accepting xAI’s offers has increased since the startup implemented the shorter period, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

U.S. consumers have been accepting double-digit price increases on everyday basics although some major manufacturers, including Clorox, have seen their sales volumes fall.

From Reuters • May 2, 2023

The only real cultural bumps so far, he said, have been accepting that Southern hospitality isn’t fake and “trying to learn about country music.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2022

“Big hospitals should have been accepting those patients and pulling those patients out” of M.L.K., he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2021

We know that a lady whose hospitality we have been accepting has retired from her company insulted.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James