Example Sentences

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It genuinely feels like it’s word of mouth that people have been discovering the film.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

And researchers have been discovering a growing list of additional health benefits for the drugs, such as preventing heart attacks, alleviating sleep apnea and treating liver disease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

But even as researchers have been discovering it in new pockets throughout the western U.S., many state health departments have failed to track it.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2023

But a new generation of people from the Indian community based in Belfast have been discovering what locals call “Krishna Island”, for the first time.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2022

I have been discovering a great truth about low-wage work and probably a lot of medium- wage work, too—that nothing happens, or rather the same thing always happens, which amounts, day after day, to nothing.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich