Example Sentences

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Detectives investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office have repeated their call for people to come forward with information.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

So for years, to myself and to anyone willing to listen, I have repeated the same correction: That is not Iran.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2026

He informed Hitler of his fears a week before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and may have repeated the message when he visited Hitler’s field headquarters near Rastenburg in February 1942.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

As the following chart shows, there are some S&P 500 behaviors that have repeated in those previous and current “instances” that continue to confirm the uptrend.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 19, 2025

Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond