Example Sentences

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Finding that sweet spot is what Omeleto and its like-minded services have been aiming to do, with their individual methods of determining what audiences will want.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Physicists including Manfra have been aiming to create states of matter that naturally contain nonabelions and can therefore serve as the platform for topological qubits.

From Scientific American • May 10, 2023

McDuffie is the most recognized of four Democratic candidates who have been aiming to succeed D.C.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

One plan will include the original spending top line of $733 billion for that year, the spending target department leaders have been aiming for since planning began earlier this year.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2018

Nothing has ever given me more mortification than a suspicion that has been propagated of me, that I am actuated by private views and have been aiming at high places.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail