Example Sentences

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Those laureates may have built careers on an orthodoxy that wasn’t there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

"If it wasn't for Linda, we wouldn't have built this, I don't think," says Josh Behling, president of Wildfire Safety Systems and one of the inventors of the Fort.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

When you have built a large portfolio and watch half of it disappear, a 50% drawdown stops being a number on a page.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

That suggests the treatment may be most active in older tissue, where senescent cells have built up.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer