Example Sentences

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For them, the actions and inactions of the team this year have been indefensible.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

From political unrest to social injustice, 2023 has been a year of eye-opening revelations, showing us the realities and consequences of our collective actions and inactions.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023

The new push comes as federal lawmakers are weighing compensation for people claiming harm from other government actions - and inactions - during the Cold War.

From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2023

"This will be a complicated action because it is challenging not only individual cases but the whole policy background, actions and inactions of the Home Office."

From BBC • May 3, 2022

“That would be precious hard work in this place,” said a third speaker, who had passed several years of the dreary inactions of prison life.

From Orphans of the Storm by MacMahon, Henry