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See contraction.
Example Sentences
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“The level of intensity, the talent, the attention to detail — they’ve applied that all season long. We have a lot of lessons to pull from.”
From Los Angeles Times
“We’ve played the most teams in the top 15 in Southern California,” Morris said.
From Los Angeles Times
As I’ve said before, I’m smart enough to know what I don’t know.
From Los Angeles Times
For example, Lovelace explained, “If the system throws up an image of a face and says that’s the guy they want, the tendency would be for law enforcement officers to take it for granted because of the way they’ve been conditioned by culture and by those AI companies to overvalue its effectiveness. They’re not likely to say, ‘actually, it’s not that person, that person was nowhere near the scene of the crime.'”
From Salon
"In this format, it just takes one or two players having a really good day for an upset to happen. Even at the start of this World Cup, we've seen some close games that could have gone either way."
From Barron's
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