Example Sentences

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As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit -- the smartphone.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Indeed, they have ignored and even defended many of them.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2026

“We have ignored the power of chosen family,” Dolan says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Sturgeon writes that she would normally have ignored such "wild stories from the darker recesses of social media," but this one ended up being discussed by her neighbours, family and friends.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Monday night, March 1 San Fran As you well know, diary, I have ignored you totally.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez