Example Sentences

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The researchers believe the comet's history raises questions about whether it should continue carrying Halley's name, since earlier observers may already have recognized its repeated appearances centuries before Halley's work.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

I asked why he hadn’t gone to the front, that surely someone would have recognized him and ushered him inside.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

Born in 1905, Jenkins inhabited a traditional unsentimental culture Austen would have recognized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Not having kids of her own deprived Ortega of the one excuse her family would have recognized.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025

“And when I passed the weaving shed, I could smell the fabrics folded there, and even the wood of the looms. “If the women had been at work, I would have recognized the sounds.”

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry